GOP calls Democrats' bluff on riots

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Last Thursday, Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), David Joyce (R-Ohio), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), and Van Taylor (R-Texas) introduced legislation to investigate the involvement of antifa in the nationwide riots of 2020.

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“Last year, organized cells of criminals hijacked overwhelmingly peaceful protests and used the legitimate grievances of others as cover to commit horrific acts of violence,” Mace said in a statement. “They caused billions of dollars in property damage and attacked law enforcement officers and innocent bystanders in cities across the country.”

“These riots often caused the most harm to the marginalized communities the criminals claimed to represent,” Mace added. “Antifa bands represent the same threat to our nation posed by other terrorist groups. We must do all we can to understand and neutralize this dangerous movement before more are harmed.”

While many Americans protested after the death of George Floyd, many of those protests devolved into arson and looting. In a tragic irony, this violence in the name of helping black people destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. Antifa black bloc agitators led or took part in many of the riots, especially in violent hotbeds like Portland and Seattle. The noxious ideology of Marxist critical race theory inspired a great deal of the violence.

The looting, vandalism, and arson that took place between May 26 and June 8, 2020, resulted in at least $1 billion to $2 billion in insurance claims, eclipsing the $775 million (in 1992 dollars) — $1.4 billion (in 2020 dollars) — paid out after the Los Angeles riots following the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King. Other riots in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s did not reach $500 million in 2020 dollars.

Democrats strain to condemn Republicans for the Capitol riot, but Republicans loudly condemned the violent rioters at the time. President Donald Trump, who told the January 6 protesters to remain peaceful, loudly condemned the rioters a few days afterward.

By contrast, Biden and the Democrats mostly ignored the violence over the summer. Biden did condemn violence, but he did only condemned antifa once — in a local news interview. By contrast, he repeatedly mentioned militia groups and the Proud Boys, often associated with the Right. Trump argued that “Biden has given moral aid and comfort to the vandals, repeating the monstrous lie that these were peaceful protests.”

If Democrats want to claim the moral high ground on riots, they need to vocally condemn Black Lives Matter and antifa rioters who terrorized American cities last summer.

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They will have a difficult time with this because so many Democrats actually supported the Antifa and BLM riots including VP Harris.  I get the feeling they were part of Democrats' plans to win the 2020 election.