I guess this is what we can look forward to for the foreseeable future. When the president of the United States decides to show up somewhere and say words, left-wingers will riot. And why not? The Washington Post is already building the narrative that conservatives who dare to say words are instigating the inevitable violence.
The mayor of Phoenix, who is a Democrat, asked Trump to cancel the Tuesday night rally - mainly out of partisan motivation but also because he knew this would probably happen. When a left-wing mob threatens to wreak havoc and assault your police, give them what they want in advance! That appears to be the new modus operandi of terrified public officials.
A group of anti-Trump demonstrators used gas canisters, rocks and bottles to assault police Tuesday night and create havoc at what officials said was mostly a peaceful protest in Phoenix.
Video captured by a local reporter also shows a smoking object being thrown at police while hundreds of officers attempted to keep order at a rally after President Trump's speech at the Phoenix Convention Center had ended.
"A very small number of individuals chose criminal conduct," Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams told reporters late Tuesday.
The individuals broke down fencing and "at one point dispersed gas into and at the police officers," Williams said. "They had their own gas they threw at police, not our gas."
The violence resembled the mayhem perpetrated by Antifa groups, militant far-left "anti-fascist" groups that have protested Trump at other venues.
Local Phoenix officers dressed in riot gear finally had to disperse pepper balls and tear gas at the crowds. Officers first directed pepper spray at individual protesters before they deployed a larger-scale gas.
"Officers were forced then at that time to really protect themselves, to protect the community, to protect property and they did so successfully and professionally," Williams said.
Here's a question we may never know the answer to:
How much of this is coming from your standard-issue left-winger, who simply can't stand the fact that his side lost and is demonstrating the blatant intolerance of the left to any dissent from its own orthodoxies?
Or . . .
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How much of this is because otherwise rational people believed the media nonsense about Trump "encouraging Nazis" or whatever it is he was supposed to have done, and as a result really lost their marbles over the notion in their heads that we have a wild-eyed, white supremacist president?
I tend to think it's the former, but with this caveat: It's fairly standard thinking on the left that Republicans in general and Trump in particular are racists, so those assaulting the cops probably didn't need that much encouragement from the media to buy this thinking. Then again, the fact that this notion is already so planted in people's minds is exactly why the media thought they could sell it.
Vicious cycle, eh?
This may not have been the work of Antifa per se, but apparently the rush to absolve Antifa of any blame for Charlottesville has taught these malcontents well. Whenever white supremacists are present, there is no tactic that's beyond the pale. And Trump is a white supremacist, don't you know, because the media have spent the past 10 days telling everyone that. And you wanted to believe it anyway.
By the way, according to Howard Dean, if you're going to vote Republican in the 2018 mid-terms, consider yourself a racist, buddy. See how this works? Violence is fine if racists are present. All Republicans are racist. Bring your own weapons.
I told you on Monday that when a man is being slandered, it's right to defend him, regardless of his overall character. Let's expand that thinking a little. It's become standard political behavior to slander entire sides of the ideological divide as racist or whatever because of policy disagreements. When enough people believe that, they start showing up with rocks, bottles, gas cannisters and smoke bombs. People get hurt. People get killed.
Why? Because someone got the idea that the other side was so evil it shouldn't even be allowed to speak. Where did they get that idea? The Washington Post, for starters. But they're getting it from the culture at large at the moment, and this is the result.
I've heard some people say in recent days that criticism of Barack Obama was harsher than it was of Trump. Leaving aside the question of whether that's objectively true, let me ask you: Where were all the conservative riots that occurred at Obama appearances? Can you name a single one?
It's becoming standard fare from the left every time Trump appears, and it's starting to look like that's by design.
