Will Democrats investigate violence in Democrat cities last year?

 Washington Examiner Editorial:

When political violence and lawlessness are allowed to thrive, it erodes the foundations of civil society and threatens the health of the republic itself. If the nation is to avoid this grievous outcome, there must be a swift bipartisan response that deals with such violence in all of its forms.

Newly sworn in Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, the New York Times reports, plans to “examine the influence of Russia and other foreign powers on anti-government extremist groups like the ones that helped mobilize the deadly attack on the Capitol last month.”

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But if Warner is serious, both about the investigation being bipartisan and about being concerned with foreign powers stoking violence, he should also look into the influences on the riots that tore through U.S. cities in the summer — lighting businesses on fire, toppling statues, assaulting police officers, attacking federal buildings, and beating innocent people.

In one encouraging sign, the New York Times reported, “The Senate Intelligence Committee will examine both white supremacist groups on the right, and antifascist, or antifa, groups on the left.” Of course, Warner cautioned, however, “I don’t want to make a false equivalency argument here ... because the vast preponderance of them are on the right.”

That statement suggests Warner is already prone to bias and is prejudging the outcome of his inquiry. Far more people were killed and injured in outbreaks of apparent left-wing political violence in the summer than were harmed in apparent right-wing violence on Jan. 6. We would also suggest that Warner look into the influences of the radical elements within the Black Lives Matter movement, which has revolutionary origins. One of its founders boasted in a 2015 interview that, “We are trained Marxists.”

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Democrats have been engaged in willful blindness to the violence by Antifa and BLM.  I suspect they will not delve deeply into these rogue actors and will concentrate on a political hit against conservative groups. The Democrat groups were far worse.