Maggie's Farm

The difference between now and the 60's is the facility to immediately record sound and video and send it out to the world, on a pocket device. The coverage is much better and more raw and immediate (not professionally produced or edited).

For the first time people are getting a good look at the annihilating scourge of mob violence destroying our young people, and incited by the organization behind the mayhem. We are getting a sense of its sophisticated and diabolical intent.

Trump is letting the Progressive governors and mayors show their face without the benefit of their mask of political platitudes. In order to support the radicals, they cannot confront them. They're weak - but at the expense of their communities, which means they're craven.

I bet Trump will make them ask for help, which he will readily provide, just as he did for the COVID crisis - or he will wait until the politicians have made themselves redundant politically, at which time he'll step in. The communities will not forget this time, I think.

Declaring ANTIFA a terrorist organization was long overdue, but at this point I feel pretty sure there is probably sufficient intelligence on their networks that Trump will be able to take the incremental step of showing proof that they are supported by foreign actors - in which case, they would be an international terrorist organization, on the same adversarial footing as ISIS or Al Qaeda - at least for military purposes.

Preserving First Amendment rights for all citizens is one thing. Allowing unchallenged ground and airspace for an enemy sworn to destroy your society and Constitution from within, is another.