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Sending in the National Guard, the Marines or for that matter, the Rangers, won’t stop the riots. Much like bombing Afghanistan didn’t stop Islamic terrorism, arresting street level activists isn’t going to deal with the root cause which operates at a level far above the Molotov hurlers.
And that’s not just George Soros or the Ford Foundation (which got into funding the radicalization of Latinos back when George was still grifting his way across Manhattan) or a handful of groups here and there… it’s California’s entire Democratic political leadership.
California’s permanent Democrat majority has a founding mythos. And it’s not Mayflower or the Constitution: it’s Proposition 187. Prop 187 was a failed last-ditch effort to save California from its current state by ending the poisoning of elections by illegal voters. The courts ignored the voters who backed 187 and a radical leftist permanent majority hijacked the entire state.
That majority claimed that outraged Latinos rose up over Prop 187. What really happened then, much as now, is that leftists set off riots, and steamrolled sellout Republicans who never really believed in 187, and built a massive network of organizations to seize permanent power.
Some of those organizations, under various names, are still active today 30 years later.
Under whatever names they go by, their real name is the California Democratic Party.
The same network of organizations trying to murder law enforcement officers in Los Angeles provides voter turnout and outreach to California Democrats. No politician can get elected, however dubiously, as governor or as the mayors of certain key cities, especially Los Angeles, without its support. Its activists call themselves ‘community organizers’, much as current Mayor Karen Bass, does, what they actually are is ‘community commissars’, using federal, state and local funds to run groups that double as voter turnout operations for local Democrats.
California is not, as Gov. Gavin Newsom falsely claims, a ‘democracy’. It’s a leftist political network riddled with ‘ghost districts’ filled with illegals, where elections depend on the flow of government money to the ‘community groups’ who provide manpower for election rallies, find voters, harvest ballots, advocate for propositions (usually for pay) and determine ‘elections’.
The system, formally known as ‘stakeholder democracy’, largely excludes actual voters and is actually an oligarchy and more closely resembled how the mostly theoretical ‘Soviets’ of the Soviet Union were supposed to run. That’s no coincidence as the entire system is run by radical leftists, many of whom, like Mayor Karen Bass or Mayor Barbara Lee of Oakland, admired Cuba and wanted to replicate the Communist system in America. And in California, they did just that.
That is what President Trump, ICE and the National Guard are up against in California.
Not just illegal aliens, but radical Mexican and La Raza (meaning ‘the race’: a theory that mixed-race people from Latin America are superior created a Nazi collaborator) nationalist groups, are key to the Democrat supermajority and its death grip on power over the state.
The last time that they set off riots to protest immigration laws, they took over the state.
Is it any wonder that they’re doing it all over again, this time in the hopes of bringing down President Trump and a Republican majority? What worked for them in 1994 and 2020 seems like a good bet for 2026 and 2028. Fighting the riots at the street level, something that tragically did not happen in 2020, is an important assertion of law and order. But it’s not enough.
California is full of radical activists coming out of college campuses who are stupid enough to serve as foot soldiers for the riots. It also has no shortage of career criminals who will join in for the looting, gang members looking for a fight and teenagers taking a break from street takeovers to throw bottles at soldiers. The enemy has much more manpower and more significantly, far more legal manpower, to fight federal cases than federal prosecutors do.
A layer above the street riots is a network of organizers, monitors and legal advisers who can move the rioters around faster than the Guard can and work to defend them if they’re arrested.
The legal bills for the rioters, much as the legal bills for the UCLA Hamas rioters was paid for by taxpayers through a decree by the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, will be on the tab of the taxpayers in one way or another. If any of them end up shot, we’ll be hearing about it for the next 50 years just like Kent State and if any of them are killed, they’ll get a gold coffin tour of the country, murals in every city and streets named after them. That’s enough incentive already.
The only way to truly end the violence is to cut off the head of the snake.
Much of the infrastructure for the riots comes out of the tens of millions in government funding for ‘community groups’ in the business of community organizing and tracking immigration officials, for ‘deportation defense’ organizations, and for groups tied to refugee resettlement.
For example, one of the most widely reported cases involves the Coalition for Human Immigrant’ Rights (CHIRLA), one of the groups linked to the LA open borders riots, spent nearly half a million dollars opposing the Newsom recall and benefited from $35 million in government funding. Its activities included tracking the locations of ICE agents, a form of interference with federal law enforcement that has been known to lead to violent incidents.
That money has to be cut off and while the IRS can (and should) cut off the non-profit status of some of these groups, that would be a drop in the bucket because most of the money is coming from California taxpayers. The money moves from politicians to extremist organizations, usually through ‘community’ front groups, in exchange for political support. Some of these leaders, like Gov. Gavin Newsom, pretend to deplore the violence while covering for it while others, like Kamala Harris, Rep. Maxine Waters and Supervisor Janice Hanh encourage the riots.
This is not a problem for the military: it’s the kind of problem that RICO was built to tackle.
The ultimate financiers and organizers of the LA riots are California’s leaders. And no meaningful progress can be made in ending the state of lawlessness until they are brought to justice and the entire system is made accountable. Even if the riots are contained, they will simply pop up again in another form with the money laundered through another set of nonprofits to another bunch of activist groups that the media will pretend are popular protesters.
But right now, President Trump has struck at the core source of California’s oligarchy. Opposing immigration enforcement gave them power and the networks behind the riots represent a corrupt bargain between the party’s public operatives, men like Gavin Newsom, and a shadow state of radical community groups who determine who riots and who rules.
The only way to bring the rule of law back to California is to bring down the network. We couldn’t liberal Afghanistan or Iraq, but maybe we can free California.