There's no doubt that cities around the country - with Democratic mayors and city councils, it's worth noting - have clearly been unable to stem the violence, vandalism and staking out of faux-sovereign territory with which they've been besieged since May. It's given the Very Stable Genius an opportunity to engage in extra-Constitutional tough-guy talk.
And now unmarked vans are patrolling the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, and guys in camouflage have been jumping out of them and pulling protestors off the streets. There's been no clear explanation of what agency or function of an agency these guys are with. Acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf did brief them before they began their task. That's some kind of clue, I suppose.
I think Allahpundit at Hot Air sums up what's going on well:
The whole episode smells like Wolf trying to fulfill Trump’s strongman fantasy of sending soldiers into the streets under the Insurrection Act to crack the heads of looters in early June. POTUS ended up not doing that after he met resistance from Mark Milley and Mark Esper, but now here’s Wolf doing what he can to make the dream happen. Why aren’t these guys dressed like normal federal agents? What’s the excuse?Portland's long been the scene of rabble-rousing by snot-nosed far-left malcontents. Occupy Portland went into business in October 2011, about three weeks after Occupy Wall Street became a thing. In 2017 and 2018, Antifa, in the name of showing Patriot Prayer that "their hatred and violence has no place in Portland," showed up at Patriot Prayer rallies and interacted with rally-goers with - you guessed it, hatred and violence.
The current round of destruction has been going on constantly since May 29.
Yes, the DHS or whatever federal body has sent in these unmarked vans has acted boneheadedly. In this day and age when it takes hardly anything to set off a cycle of anarchy-and-backlash in post-America, I hope no one is surprised.
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