Well, happily there are some pretty fitting successors to the LOTR quote at the end there, for if and when things turn around; Antifa is routed once and for all; and Portland (and America's other cities) are able to regain their glory & luster.

Suddenly, caught by the level beams, Frodo saw the old king's head: it was lying rolled away by the roadside. Look, Sam!' he cried, startled into speech. Look! The king has got a crown again!' The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. 'They cannot conquer for ever!' said Frodo.

Then Aragorn set trumpeters at each of the four roads that ran into the ring of trees, and they blew a great fanfare, and the heralds cried aloud: 'The Lords of Gondor have returned and all this land that is theirs they take back.' The hideous orc-head that was set upon the carven figure was cast down and broken in pieces, and the old king's head was raised and set in its place once more, still crowned with white and golden flowers: and men laboured to wash and pare away all the foul scrawls that orcs had put upon the stone.

Every demographic except straight white males votes progressive/Democrat.

Who runs the Democratic Party? The woke universities? Media companies? Hollywood? Major corporations? It’s not the blacks and Latinos.