The violent left's response to Roe decision

 Hugo Gurdon:

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That assumption is made because violence is no longer a surprise on the Left. It is, rather, a tendency frequently indulged. Righteous left-wing riots flared up almost every day during the hideous summer of 2020. You also probably remember a mob pounding the Supreme Court's doors after Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination was confirmed in 2018.

Capitol Hill's security personnel wouldn’t have bothered throwing up a fence this week if the court decision (which was leaked with gross impropriety) had shown that the justices intended to uphold the fiction of a constitutional right to abortion. The idea that people who attend the March for Life would start smashing things is ludicrous.

But we live in a culture that accepts and often excuses “progressives” when they riot. Their tumult is seen as almost a normal step in the political process. The eruption of their anger and direct action basks in a glow of approval, for it is often seen as a just and passionate expression of indignation against injustice. Two years ago, Democrats supported people who ripped 50 city centers apart over the murder of George Floyd. Left-wing mayors abandoned the interests of the cities they were elected to lead.

The Left’s elected federal officials, whom you’d suppose would prefer the ballot box to the baseball bat, came out publicly on the side of mayhem. “Fact-checkers” at media organizations say it’s false to claim that Kamala Harris, who was then a senator and is now vice president, supported violence. But their analysis is tendentious. If Harris was siding only with a protest “movement,” why didn’t she make the distinction plain? And why did she tell everyone to “beware” of those in the streets? Because she approved of them and did not want to criticize the Democratic base.

The Left’s street violence is in keeping with its inclination toward constitutional vandalism. This is, more explicitly, the demand that the rules be changed if Democrats cannot win under the rules currently in place.

Shortly after the Alito draft broke into the open, Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, called for the Senate filibuster to be replaced with bare majority rule, and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-MN, demanded that the court be packed with extra left-liberals to entrench Roe v. Wade. The message is clear: Whatever gets in the way of us winning must be swept aside, even if it is the Constitution or public opinion expressed by a chamber of Congress.
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Liberals believe tantrums and riots are the proper response to decisions and events they do not like.  They are the uncivil actors in America today.  They also believe they should have a monopoly on riots and therefore the rioters of Jan. 6 should be held without due process.