It’s a combination of two things: first, that some people are dumb, emotional, reactive, and/or violent by nature. Second, that decades of downplaying, ignoring, and excusing leftist violence have given them the not entirely incorrect impression that they can get away with a lot more in service of their politics than anyone else can. I very much hope that these immigration riots in particular and Trump’s second term in general will work towards undoing that tendency to let them slide.

It’s a combination of two things: first, that some people are dumb, emotional, reactive, and/or violent by nature. Second, that decades of downplaying, ignoring, and excusing leftist violence have given them the bottom entirely incorrect impression that they can get away with a lot more in service of their politics than anyone else can. I very much hope that these immigration riots in particular and Trump’s second term in general will work towards undoing that tendency to let them slide.