The consequences of America's failure to act on its victory in the Cold War, so carelessly thrown away by the Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations, are now playing out, first in the judiciary and now in the streets. What started as legal challenges in federal courts across the land has turned into open rebellion, to which has now been added foreign interference in America's internal affairs. It's a powderkeg, but this time the Left will either step down or be put down.
While the media continues its impersonation of Baghdad Bob, and largely refuses to call the violence currently happening in the streets of Los Angeles what it is -- an open insurrection against federal authority -- Americans are finally becoming aware of the widespread scope and nature of the Resistance 2.0 and what it portends.
Resistance 1.0 was principally waged by the Corporate Media, announcing itself the day Donald Trump was first inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017, continued throughout his presidency and extended all the way to the end of the "Biden" autopen administration, shielding the Rutabaga-in-Chief as much as possible from public scrutiny and generally gaslighting the American public about the real nature of the sham government that occupied Washington for four years.
During this periods, Americans were subjected to fascist hand of the Pharma State via the Covid hoax, which summarily dispensed with critical elements of the Bill of Rights, including freedom of speech, religion, and assembly. They also experienced the joys of the George Floyd riots, an uprising fueled by racial animus but carefully organized, triggered, and coordinated by enemies of the U.S. via their ongoing "active measures" programs. (The Soviet Union may be dead, but its tactics live on.) The pro-fascist organization known collectively as "Antifa," which operates nationwide as the armed wing of the Democrat Party in much the same way that the Ku Klux Klan used to, is almost always involved as well.
Now comes Los Angeles, as if that once fair city hasn't suffered enough under its communist mayor, Karen Bass, and the made man of the San Francisco political mafia, Gov. Gavin Newsom. In response the rioting over the weekend, president Trump has taken control of the California National Guard and is threatening to send in the Marines if the situation is not quickly brought under control -- something he ill-advisedly did not do during the Floyd riots. Newsom and the state's attorney general immediately responded with -- of course -- a lawsuit. For his part, Trump opined that he wouldn't at all mind of border enforcer Tom Homan marched on Sacramento and arrested the carefully coiffed Newsom as part of his crackdown on illegal aliens and the fifth-columnists in the law and government who aid and abet them.
It's interesting to note that California leftists used to refer to the Rodney King riots of 1992 as "the uprising," but claim the current unrest is merely "mostly peaceful protest," on the specious grounds that they do not yet match the King riots' scope. Pooh-poohs the New York Times:
Some Republicans have drawn parallels between President Trump’s dispatching of National Guard troops to Los Angeles on Saturday and what happened in 1992, when soldiers and Marines were sent to the Los Angeles area to restore order after the Rodney King riots. But that was a far different situation.
In contrast with the isolated skirmishes seen in Los Angeles County over the past few days, there were neighborhoods in 1992 that had devolved into something resembling a lawless dystopia. Drivers were pulled from cars and beaten. Buildings were burned. Businesses were looted. In all, 63 people died during the riots, including nine who were shot by the police.
The violence in 1992 was also fueled by tensions between the Black and Korean American communities in the area, and by the shooting death of a Black girl by a Korean American shopkeeper. It got so far out of control that major-league sports events were postponed or moved to safer locations, dusk-to-dawn curfews were imposed, schools were closed and mail delivery was withheld in some neighborhoods.
The protests of 2025 bear little if any comparison to the widespread upheaval and violence of 1992. The protesters have directed their anger mainly at ICE agents, not at fellow residents, and the demonstrations have so far done relatively little damage to buildings or businesses.
Ultra-hack "journalist" John Heilemann continued the squid-inking on MSNBC, the not-so-broadcast wing of Never Trump Inc., asserting that “Governor Newsom’s right; there wasn’t anything like a riot happening on Friday or Saturday." Asked his opinion, Trump responded today: "The folks that are causing the problem are professional agitators, they're insurrectionists, they're bad people, they should be in jail.
Further, the self-induced "plight" of the illegal aliens has not been helped by their penchant for waving the Mexican flag and sporting the "Palestinian" tablecloth called a keffiyeh around their neck as they set cars afire. Call it the Thunbergian Unified Field Theory of Revolution: a synthesis of "climate change," Gaza, Jew hatred, "immigration," and playing hooky from school. Nor has the Mexican president Claudia Shinebaum helped matters by supporting the "rights" of her illegals in the U.S. and encouraging their continuing theft of American resources via remittances sent back home. Tax those at 100% percent and watch the illegal-invasion problem largely vanish overnight.
Meanwhile, the public is solidly behind Trump. Americans love nothing than a righteous, thumping beat-down of the bad guys. For the violent insurrectionist Left, it's been a long time coming. The last time Democrats resisted an election and nullified federal law began in 1861 at Fort Sumter, ended four years later at Appomattox. Let's see how they choose to play it this time.
Article tags: Donald Trump, Gaza, Los Angeles
