WASHINGTON — The script for how big media outlets cover left-wing riots never changes.
Progressive protests destroy blue cities. Then, cable news anchors inform viewers that the protests that have brought chaos and destruction started out peacefully.
Yes, there is a pattern to progressive protests that turn violent. The demonstrations, like those in parts of Los Angeles over the weekend, start out peacefully during the daylight hours and then descend into chaos as masked thugs use force, fire, and rocks to destroy and intimidate. (RELATED: Los Angeles Isn’t What’s Burning. The Democrat Party Might Well Be.)
Are Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom angry at the violent protesters who are trashing their territory?
Not that you’d notice. Bass and Newsom are saving their fire for President Donald Trump. Trump is to blame, they argue, for the gratuitous violence that Americans can expect when the left voices its objection to Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions.
Newsom maintained, “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.”
“If immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night,” Bass told CNN Monday.
Disorder?
Disorder, to Bass, is law enforcement.
To them, disorder is not activists hurling bottles and rocks at ICE vehicles and members of the National Guard, torched self-driving cars and American flags, and freeways shut down to the taxpaying public.
“The guy riding around on his motorcycle carrying the Mexican flag,” said consultant Sean Walsh, who was deputy chief of staff to former California Gov. Pete Wilson, he’s not exactly helpful for the anti-ICE folk’s image. (RELATED: Do We Have a Nation?)
Walsh recalls that protests against Proposition 187, a measure to deny health, welfare, and education benefits to illegal immigrants, helped the measure pass overwhelmingly in 1994.
Every time I see protesters wave Mexican or other foreign flags, I recognize their right to express their sol...