Let’s skip past the part where Democrat leaders in the most perfunctory way “disavow” the violent and lawless rioting in Los Angeles, and their news media counterparts diligently repeat those disavowals for them. What we’re seeing in L.A. is what Democrats instigate and excuse when their policies are obstructed. They’re happy with it. This is how they govern, and to pretend otherwise is an insult to even below-average intelligence (looking at you, Jasmine Crockett).
Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said as much on Monday on CNN, after two days of foreign nationals hurling boulders at cop cars, setting private property on fire, and tossing explosives at federal government facilities. “I just have to say that if you dial back time and go [back] to Friday,” she said, “if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night.”
The “immigration raids” Bass referred to were multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention operations throughout the city for the purpose of apprehending migrants residing in the U.S. illegally. That’s an ancient process in L.A. now formerly known as “upholding the law.” In effect, Bass was arguing that so long as illegal aliens were permitted to break the law, there would be no problems.
She said that with a straight face on live national television. So, no, they don’t get to disavow anything. This is their mess, and they won’t clean it up, which means someone else has to.
This was inevitable. For four years Democrats let every destitute migrant into the country so long as he could make his way to Texas. They had no right to do that. It was against the law. And the millions of people who took advantage of it are from broken corners of the world where the activity they’re engaged in right now in L.A. is precisely the type of thing they do where they’re from. While vandalizing property and assaulting police, they proudly wave the flags of their native countries, because that’s their culture.
That’s not secret knowledge. Democrats know who they were letting in. They’ve been to El Salvador. They’ve been to Venezuela. They’ve been to Honduras and Mexico. Not that they had to physically leave the country to learn anything. We have plenty of illegal aliens here and a never-ending record of how they conduct themselves.
The intention was always to break the law by allowing them entry and permitting them to stay indefinitely, thereby driving up Democrat constituencies and giving the party more representation in Congress. Ultimately, every illegal alien would be given citizenship by a Democrat president, and actual Americans with more than two generations of history in this country would never influence another election again.
That scheme is thwarted by deporting the illegal aliens Democrats have attempted to unlawfully shield. If, at a minimum, they opposed violent riots, they would have preemptively requested federal reinforcements the minute a single glass bottle hit the pavement. But they didn’t. In fact, they opposed the Trump administration activating 2,000 National Guardsmen, and Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom has filed a lawsuit against the White House alleging that the president overstepped his legal authority in doing so.
Where in here do you see the actions of a person who opposes destruction and bloodshed over a policy dispute? You don’t. It doesn’t exist. This is how Democrats govern and how they respond when their priorities are stalled. It’s 2020 and Patron Saint George Floyd all over again.
Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of "Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone."