January 6th, 2021, which was the only major riot started by the left over the previous 12 months. The Left, including members of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa, committed almost all political violence in the U.S. in 2020. Billions of dollars of property were destroyed and as many as 30 people died, including former St. Louis police chief David Dorn, murdered by thugs who filmed his death. Violence has become part of the Left strategy in promoting their cause and destabilizing America.
Damages between May 26 and June 8,2020 resulted in as much as two billion dollars paid in insurance claims. In Minneapolis alone, 1500 buildings were destroyed. Minneapolis continues to be the costliest civil disorder in 2020-21 and much of the damage took place in minority communities on whose behalf they rioted for. Violent riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin left 50 million dollars in damages and nearly 60 buildings destroyed. The biggest damage occurred in the city’s most diverse areas that included where most minorities lived. Like Chicago and Minneapolis, minority areas were ere the hardest hits in the Kenosha riots.
Many Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists did not really care about the damage they cause since buildings and goods aw just property—and not their property. Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting, told NPR that it was morally justified for Black people to rob stores because “The very basis of property is derived through violence and through Black oppression…Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness, and the police.” What these Democrat-sanctioned riots did was to destroy businesses that drive the economies of these urban centers, blocking chances for the poor to climb the economic ladder.
Much of the rioters engaged in looting claimed Black Lives Matter as their rationale for destroying the inner-city communities they claim they are supporting. In the aftermath of the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd as Kamala Harris told Stephen Colbert, about protesters, “They’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop, and everyone beware because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that… They’re not going to let up and they should not.”
In 2022, there were at least 38 acts of vandalism in art museums dealing with climate change according to one study and another noted dataset saw 89 blockade, vandalism, and harassment events happening 13 countries.
After Roe v Wade overturn, within short period of time witnessed over 100 acts of vandalism and arson on Catholic churches and pregnancy crisis centers and these attacks continued into 2024 and as one article in the Tampa Times noted, “However, despite the rash of attacks against churches and pregnancy centers two years after the fall of Roe, the Biden Justice department has done little to also prosecute the individuals responsible.”
The recent murder of two Israeli jews highlighted the violence, and protest by pro-Palestinian groups and after a serious of college “protest”, acts of intimidation directed at Jewish students, blockade of traffic and now murder are showing a rise of antisemitism throughout the world and in United States, most of this coming from the left and the Democratic Party John Hinderaker of Powerline observed, “Tom Wolfe’s much-quoted adage is that “the dark night of fascism is always descending on America but always lands in Europe.” In a similar vein, one can say that the authorities and the press are always looking for “domestic terrorism” on the right, but in fact, it consistently comes from the left…The latest left-wing terrorist is Elias Rodriguez. Rodriguez was obsessed with Israel and chanted “Free, free Palestine” after murdering Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, just as if he were participating in a demonstration at Columbia. He left behind a self-justification on Twitter in which he called Israel a “genocidal apartheid state,” a sentiment that could have come from a number of members of Congress. Israel is so evil, according to Rodriguez, that “to many Americans,” murdering Israelis is “in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.” These protests have happened in 45 states and on nearly 140 college campus, and many of these “protests” included vandalism plus blocking traffic throughout the country
From beginning of the first Trump administration, we have seen thousands of riots, vandalism, blockade of traffic, and deaths resulting by the left. You would be hard pressed to find on your hands the number of the riots caused by the right, the first being in Charlotteville in 2017 and January 6th in 2021. Many leftist activist and Democratic politicians have tolerated these acts of violence and it should be noted that the organizer of the Charlotteville riot voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and Kamala Harris in 2024. Violence is now a recognized and tolerated tactics of the Left.
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