Burn, Portland, Burn

After pre-emptively declaring he'd refuse to meet w/federal officials, Mayor Wheeler has suddenly reversed course & is now demanding a meeting w/@DHS_Wolf to discuss a "cease-fire." Even Wheeler seems to recognize that his city has insurgents who have declared war on US gov. https://t.co/TWuVKFXnwH pic.twitter.com/AqRzq1Ueq5

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2020

If reader(s) want to know what's happening in Portland, Andy Ngo is your man. Ngo is a real journalist who puts himself on the line to cover the story. He's been assaulted by Antifa several times. Ngo's over at The Post Millennial now.

That's Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler popping up from the metaphorical trench, waving the metaphorical white flag, and walking toward enemy lines over piles of metaphorical bodies left by two months of Antifa metaphorical suicide charges into the Fed's metaphorical machinegun nests. It's a metaphorical Somme.

We are at a loss as to why the Democrats think attaching themselves to and defending these (mostly peaceful) riots was a good idea. You know who don't like riots? Normal people. People who go to work, take care of their lawns, do stuff with their kids. These people don't have the time to riot. Maybe they should find time. The Dems and the media would take note of that. Honestly, these Portland riots look like a thrill. Beats falling asleep on the couch during Survivorman reruns. 

Anyway, we guess the Dem's thought Orange Man Bad! and anything Trump was for (in this case not torching Federal buildings) they must be against. There's also the little matter of the party needing to keep the LARPing revolutionaries in their ranks happy.  They don't want a repeat of 1968. But we do. 

It always comes as a shock to lefty Boomers, but when the police beat the hell out of the hippies at the Chicago Democrat Convention, vast swaths of American society watching, clenched their fists and said 'Beat 'em harder! Give 'em more of the nightstick! Work the upper body!' Same goes for the Hard Hat Riots of 1970.*

This is bad news for Dems. Real bad news.

Remember, in the 1980's Margaret Thatcher did a lot of unpopular things. Thatcher had a base, but she was not necessarily beloved by the rest of the public. The problem for Labour is that they were a lot of unelectable socialist kooks, a freak show, the cantina scene in Star Wars.

And that's where the Dems are today. Unelectable.

*Heh our dad covered those for NBC News, 'I can still see swarms of construction workers pushing their way down the street.' When city hall lowered the flag to half mast to protest the four rioters killed at Kent State, the Hard Hats made them raise it to full mast.