Must be nice to be able to call out 20,000 troops and thousands of police to protect you when you are threatened or subjected to mob action.
I wish the citizenry in my area and elsewhere were able to do that.
Doesn't work that way though. The government has broken its essential, fundamental contact with the citizenry- ie. you behave and follow the law and we will protect you. we have taken away your ability to arm yourself, use force, and to develop militias but that is because those are government functions and they will protect you or not.
One of the big differences between the DC incursion and the mob action in cities is that everyone in DC wakes up and says " this is a nightmare that needed to be stopped immediately and people need to be held accountable for not doing so." But then these same motherfuckers look at mob action in their own states and say "meh, let it roll for a month or two or maybe eight or ten.
I will end where I started by saying again "it must be nice to call out 20, 000 troops when you think your little arse is threatened but small business owners can just stand by and watch their lives and livelihoods go up in smoke and their personal property occupied. The lefties and everyone I guess agree that that incursion in DC was banana republic stuff, and it is. But you know what else is? It's when the fucking government is quick to use governmental power to protect the government but leaves the citizenry defenseless and vulnerable to mobs.
Fuck everyone in DC and their whiny goddam arses. They got caught off guard but are able to regroup and put massive resources together to do better. With the local mobs it is different. The governments did not get caught off guard after at least the first day. They looked insurrections/mob/thugs in the eye and encouraged them and said "that's okay." "Mostly peaceful."
Don't even talk to me about DC until you shut down the local mobs and start protecting the general citizenry first or at least at the same time. Yes, Trump went off the reservation, but the lefties massively, massively embraced a culture of lawlessness that could never be expected to have a good ending. Both the nuts on the left and on the right would use it for a feeding frenzy. And they did.
Lessons learned so far? It is good to be the government if you are attacked.