what would Putin do?
“what would Putin do?”
When Rule of Law is abandoned in favor of appeasing mobs, the anarchy that results undermines law-abiding citizens’ trust that they will be protected by the government that is doing little else but taxing the hell out of them.
Then the next step is gang warfare, in this case divided by race and/or ideology. Finally, the population will be ready to accept the government stepping in and re-establishing order with an iron fist. Obama will thusly have the sort of authoritarian Latin American style dictatorship he obviously envies.
Obama’s divide-and-conqueror strategy is bearing rotten fruit.