Do Democrats want a Summer of Love II?

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The 2020 Summer of Love caused multiple deaths, far more injuries, and $2 billion in property damage, mostly in blue cities. “Protesters,” actually leftist terrorists, knew better than to try that in a small—red--town, as Jason Aldean eventually sang.

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Flush with their success torching cities Democrat politicians wanted torched, a small group of Antifa dimwits took their street theater to the annual Sturgis, SD motorcycle rally. One of them was stupid enough to kick a parked motorcycle. While the police surrounded the Antifa terrorists and hustled them out of town, the terrified terrorists suddenly realized they were surrounded by thousands of bikers who would have been delighted to turn them into greasy spots on the pavement. They were equally suddenly fond of the police. Fortunately for them, folks who travel to Sturgis for the Rally are very polite and support the police. Antifa has not attempted a repeat performance.

However, at The New York Post, Noah Rothman reports Democrats, who are absolutely not the party of violence—ask them, they’ll tell you—appear to be planning “Summer of Love II,” which promises to be bigger and more destructive than the original.

In a video message to constituents last week, Sen. Andy Kim agonized over the “chaos in the streets that ICE has unleashed” on the city of Newark, NJ. The Garden State Democrat pledged to “do everything I can to try to stop this chaos.”

What nonsense. If anything, the senator and his fellow Democrats have done everything in their power to inflame passions and drive violent agitators onto those very streets — putting the safety of civilians and law enforcement alike in jeopardy.
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Classic Democrat projection. Accuse others of what you’re doing. All Kim need do is keep the terrorists off the streets—immediate arrests, rapid prosecutions, and long sentences would help--and ICE agents would go quietly about their business at the Delaney facility. No chaos, no injuries, no arrests.

The drug-induced suicide of George Floyd was the excuse for the first SoL. Here’s one for this summer:

“It’s a concentration camp, and they are disappearing people,” said one deranged union organizer of the Newark-based Delaney Hall detention facility, where the Trump administration is housing immigration deportation targets. Absurd though that claim is, it mirrors assertions from Democratic lawmakers that the conditions in that facility are “inhumane,” even though they insist they’ve been barred from witnessing them.

But Democrats have not been denied access to the facility.
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And in their more sincere moments, they concede that detainees mostly complain that “there is no movement” of their cases through the courts. That’s a far cry from the activists’ allegations that detainees are being denied proper nutrition and medical care. But the capital “C” version of this conspiracy theory has proven sufficiently radicalizing.

They have sincere moments? They do have these:

Mounted police on horseback charged into the crowd, briefly dispersing the demonstration before it regrouped down the block. There, rioters set plywood, trash, tires, and plastic traffic drums alight.

As Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche proved with some graphic photo evidence that officers were beaten and even bitten by the rioters.

Graphic: DOJ, Public Domain

We’ve known for some time that leftist political violence is anything but a local, grassroots phenomenon. “Protests” like the Newark attack are manned by out-of-state professional terrorists, and are lavishly financed and organized by national NGOs and other private organizations and wealthy individuals. The DOJ has not yet gone after these insurrectionists, but it appears they’re working on it. Rothman concludes:

The events unfolding on the streets of Newark today, and what may come next, will be hauntingly familiar to readers of “Blood & Progress” [Rothman’s new book]. Democrats have made a fetish of violence, seeing in it an excessive but useful manifestation of political enthusiasm, even as they tell themselves the left doesn’t have a violence problem.

In a broader sense, the SoL and a potential SoL II are the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Invented in 1966 by two radical academics, the basic idea is to create chaos, to so overwhelm existing, constitutional systems, that Americans will accept lunatic leftist “solutions” they would never consider under less chaotic conditions. Looting, rioting, assault, destruction of property, even murder and political assassination, are part of that strategy, which we see all around us. Convince Americans the police can’t or won’t do their jobs, the courts are corrupt and failing, Congress won't legislate, government is unwilling or unable to protect Normal Americans, and they just might go Democrat.

Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for Normal Americans, should Democrats go too far in going too far, Normal Americans won’t go Democrat. They’ll go Sturgis, only this time, without the police to protect them. The police will probably join in.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.