“I don’t approve of violence, but…”
But, in fact, they DO approve of violence, or at least think that violence can be justified to achieve political goals in the United States.
I’ve written a number of pieces about how the left has embraced violence, arguing that there is nothing fringe about the riots, assaults, vandalism, and even murder that has been sweeping our country.
During the George Floyd riots, we saw every Democrat politician in the country literally kneeling in celebration of the riots, egging them on, musing about how the violence was justified, calling the takeover of our cities the “summer of love,” and attacking Republicans for not embracing the “mostly peaceful” burning down of our cities.
When people died in the riots, we got the “I don’t approve of violence, but…” excuses, which amounted to “I approve of violence” in this…
