Pro-Hamas activists mobbed the California legislature and shut down the state Assembly, and yet it seems California Democrats are OK with some forms of lawlessness in a capitol building to subvert the legislative process and not others.

The activists in question here were accusing Israel of genocide and the U.S. (and California) of enabling genocide with funding. They demanded a “ceasefire,” by which they mean that Israel stops firing and Hamas terrorists are free to continue to launch missiles and terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. And they did this all while shouting down the state Assembly and preventing the legislature from being able to conduct its business.

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This is the same California whose lieutenant governor wants to start removing GOP presidential candidates from the state’s ballot over “insurrection” charges that have not even been made. So, what exactly makes this different from the Jan. 6 riots? Is the lack of violence (because California doesn’t care enough about its own authority to have law enforcement remove these activists so it can conduct its business) what makes this different? Is it the scale?

Again, we have another example of violent protesters helping shut down legislative business in a capitol building. That was in Tennessee earlier this year, when protesters clashed with police officers while three Democratic members of the state legislature occupied (in their words) the state House floor and shut down the legislative process. That wasn’t labeled by Democrats as “insurrection” either. In fact, those Democrats were praised for doing what they did and elevated to the point that one of them is trying to exploit her status with a Senate run.

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All three acts were performed by mobs who wanted to shut down the legislature. Tennessee’s involved violently resisting law enforcement, as did Jan. 6. The goals were all the same, even if the scale (and California’s lack of self-respect) was different. So why are California Democrats not outraged and demanding prosecutions for an assault on the state’s democratic process?

This level of tolerance for mobs shutting down legislative business only invites more attempts by more people, as we saw on Jan. 6 and in Tennessee. Either these displays are acceptable or they are not. California Democrats, whether because of their lack of spine or their sympathies to the antisemitic terrorist sympathizers making a fool of them, are indicating that they are acceptable, at least when they can’t be used as a political tool to attack Republicans.