By Tristan Justice
Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn riots now that the turmoil has shifted to fit their narrative.
On Wednesday, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. It was an astonishing display of anarchic protest that delayed congressional certification of the Electoral College vote formally handing former Vice President Joe Biden the keys to the White House.
The scenes from the dark day of disaster demonstrations illustrated a deteriorating country, repulsed millions, and traumatized a nation still recovering from the death, despair, and disruption that came to define the dystopian months of 2020. Above all, what happened Wednesday served as a grim reminder that the institutional stress test of 2020 has followed us into 2021.
Incredible pic by @Reuters pic.twitter.com/yFo5B8XaIX
— Laura Bicker (@BBCLBicker) January 6, 2021
For the left, however, the chaos at the Capitol has opened an opportunity to refute the perception they own the monopoly on widespread political violence. Democrats and left-wing media elites have already capitalized on the violent outbreak, where four people died, to characterize conservatives as the creatures of chaos.
At this point, it’s undeniable that the political far-right calls home to its own Antifa-like anarchists. It is also undeniable, however, that reaction to the protests from conservative leaders roundly condemning the violence from their own side stands in remarkable contrast to the way Democrats and corporate media spent months going out of their way attempting to justify the deadly actions of militant leftists.
Not one prominent conservative pundit or politician with any significant platform was reported to have tried endorsing the mob of Trump supporters infiltrating the U.S. Capitol. To the contrary, conservatives spent months vilifying Democratic leaders for not doing enough in their own states and cities to crack down on the militant mobs of leftists taking streets under siege, normalizing the kind of political violence on track to appear routine in the nightmare 2020 decade.
It was only seven months ago that Washington D.C. was last on fire.
Reminder that our nation's capital looked like this at the beginning of the summer and most Democrats/media shrugged it off as mostly peaceful https://t.co/1zvsLVRuQc
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 6, 2021
A trip down memory lane chronicling the left’s reaction to last year’s eruption of unrest claiming the lives of at least 30 people not only exposes the hypocrisy suffusing Democrats’ condemnation of political violence, but also illustrates a sobering reality that there’s plenty of blame to go around for the situation in which the United States now finds itself.
1. Kamala Harris Urges Followers to Cover Rioters’ Bail
Incoming Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged her supporters last summer to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which provided bail money to the militant anarchists facing charges for setting fire to Minneapolis.
2. Chris Cuomo: Who Said Protests Were Supposed To Be Peaceful?CNN’s Chris Cuomo showcased his ignorance of the First Amendment in June when dismissing the idea that militant protests sweeping the nation in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death were illegal.
“Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful,” Cuomo demanded.
Here’s the text from the First Amendment, emphasis added:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
CNN's Chris Cuomo: "Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful."
As riots and looting have broken out in cities across the country, this is the message the brother of New York governor Andrew Cuomo shares at the top of his show. pic.twitter.com/ZZ47zpyVlx
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 3, 2020
3. MSNBC Reporter Describes Fiery Scene ‘Mostly A Protest’
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi stood in front of a liquor store burning behind him in Minneapolis and called the riots surrounding the camera crew “mostly a protest” that is “not, generally speaking, unruly.”
“But fires have been started,” Velshi made clear to note.
"This mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly.
But fires have been started."
MSNBC reporter says protests in Minneapolis are not "generally speaking, unruly" as buildings burn in the background. pic.twitter.com/IzzEmKgxhM
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 29, 2020
4. CNN Labels Burning Protest ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’
CNN continued to parody itself in August as a second wave of mass unrest swept the country with Kenosha, Wisconsin as its focal point. After the label “fiery but mostly peaceful” had become a trolling phrase online to describe legacy media’s coverage of the summer riots, the network literally adopted the words to describe events unfolding in Kenosha while a reporter stood in front of a several burning vehicles.
Oh my god this is a real chyron from CNN on Tuesday morning https://t.co/gM03REueuJ pic.twitter.com/XBYHmPNnGE
— Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) August 27, 2020
5. Democratic National Convention Refuses To Condemn Riots
Democrats went through their entire online convention without condemning the epidemic of left-wing violence that engulfed the nation in the preceding months.
6. Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Writer: Destroying Property Isn’t Violence
The New York Times’ architect of the “1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones, explicitly rejected the idea that destroying property fits the definition of “violence.”
“Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence,” Hannah-Jones said on CBS, to which the anchors offered no challenge.
“It’s a great point that you make, Nikole,” CBS’s Vladimir Duthiers replied.
Hannah-Jones also said it would be “an honor” for 2020 riots be deemed the “1619 Riots” despite destroying minority businesses.
7. Government-Funded PBS Reporter Denies Anarchists Are ‘Anarchists’
PBS White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor tried and failed to fact-check President Donald Trump in May, apparently faulting the president for not providing any evidence when calling the anarchists terrorizing cities “anarchists.”
To the New York Times and CNN the Rioters Looters and Arsonists were Peaceful but these people are radicals More reasons you can,t trust the M.S. Media
Just to be clear, I am disgusted and outraged at the violence in the Capital. All it accomplished, regardless of any of the underlying facts of the attackers, is provide fodder to the ignorant hungry for justification for their hatred. However, I am not so stupid as to believe it rose up out of a vacuum and deny that 4 years of hate and violence aimed at anyone that did not support socialism.
For the left, supporting the violence is a win-win. They are never held accountable for their overt support and promotion of violence and they get to exploit the moment when the right finally, as predicted for years, explodes in indignant outrage. I would like to believe the Capital assault was the culmination, but sadly, I think is is closer to the beginning than the end.
Hehe. Those kids in the capital weren’t “the Right”. They were antifa.
By the way, how is it they got into the Capital in the first place?
Why is no one asking that question?
Because this is a staged stunt by the Democrat Tyrants.
No on at The Federalist is old enough to remember that the Anti America Press has always lied about liberal violence.
In ’64 at Cala liberal thug Mario Savio led a violent gang we referred to as “The Goons at the Gate.”! They carried F. U. C. K signs which they use to hospitalized ( beat the shit out of) any bod enough to say Americans were good people.
the press supported this violent liberal with2 lies:
1. They said his ANTI FREE SPEECH (say America is good and we beat you!) was a “Free speech movement”!
2. They said his brutal attacks on America lovers were, “peaceful protests”! SEE 57 YEARS LATER AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Liberal violence has always to America haters been “peaceful protest”!
Cal liked his violence so much the named a part of the campus in his anti American honor about 30 years ago. Mario Savio Steps!
I am old!
They call the tea Parties Radicals and Racists but call the Antifa/BLM as Peaceful Yes the Stupid Jackass party(Liberal Democrats)and the Fake News Network(CNN) there is real differences between Eagles,Doves,Hawks and Turkeys the M.S. Media and the DNC being the Turkeys and the rest of us are the other Birds minding our lives
No one is bothering to think this through. One trains before a battle. That is what war games are for. The Japanese planned the attack on Pearl Harbor at FIVE successive annual senior military staff exercises. Antifa trained for the D C Riots in Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, and very probably other cities. It went smoothly because they had it all planned out.
Mayor Bowser had the police and military stand down to help in the riot.
I thought civil insurrection was a crime. When done by democrats, I guess it is legal.
@mathman: Fraud, corruption and violence is all the Democrats have.
@Nathan Blue:
That is like, so yesterday. The Washington Times reported yesterday that the firm XRVision had used software for facial comparison and identified 2 Antifa members. XRVision has now denied that claim and fake news Washington Times has removed the article. We now know that Atilla the Hun is a pro-trump QAnon kool-aid guzzler and more and more are being exposed as such. As of about an hour ago, there were at least 6 Republican state lawmakers that the cops are wanting to have a chat with.
You’re still stuck in the “he didn’t say that” or in this case “they didn’t do that” stage. You did well and played the game professionally yesterday but you now need to stay up and go with #2 which is “okay, they did it but…..”.
@Ronald J. Ward: The peaceful vigil at the capital was mostly peaceful with no violence, it was just an idea and never happened.
Because in Seattle, Portland, LA, San Diego, NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kenosha, Austin, and Atlanta, they’ve seen what happens when someone speaks out against the Democrat’s Sturmabteilung.