Peaceful protests? Donald Trump loses. Violent riots? He wins GlobeDebate
. Along with scenes of destruction in some American cities there have also been remarkable instances of peaceful marchers preventing others from using their protest as cover for criminality.
Some say that groups of extreme right-wing provocateurs are behind the violence; others claim that the extreme left-wing group Antifa, as it has done before, is taking advantage of the situation to practise its politics of window-smashing and slogan-spraying. It almost doesn’t matter whether it’s one, the other, or both. Antifa and right-wing militias are flip sides of the same coin. They’re a tiny, silent minority – an extreme fringe of people who cannot get elected to anything, and who reject democratic politics and liberal ideals. Groups like Antifa only make appearances at riots because, beyond breaking stuff and hoping to provoke a backlash, they have nothing to say.Mr.
Mr. Trump has nothing useful to say about how to fix what ails America. However, he knows rather a lot about how to use what’s ailing America to further his own re-election chances.
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