This is not merely mob violence, but mob violence protected and abetted by the (mostly bat-guano crazy) “news” media. Much of America does not even know what is happening, and without an informed public, how may panic best be spread?
Tell them it is all Trump’s fault, of course. < /sarcasm >
Democratic mayors and police chiefs et. al. tacitly allow, even support violence by withdrawing police, encouraging and emboldening the mobs. Then the complicit MSM shapes the message as it is all the fault of "systemic" racism - obviously promoted from the top down, ergo Trump's fault. We should all support the left... That's the message.
They did the same thing with the pandemic. President Trump was going to be unbeatable in the election. The economy was booming, every demographic was doing noticeably, even significantly better. Better thwart that! Along comes a new flu strain (guess what, multiple new strains appear every year, this year was no different). MSM hypes the danger beyond all reason. Democratic governors and mayors swiftly get on board, enacting sweeping mandates of questionable Constitutional correctness...effectively shutting down large parts of the economy causing a ripple effect throughout the Country. Now of course the sluggish economy and disjoint "response" to the "pandemic" is of course being laid at the feet of the President by that very same complicit MSM.
It's the left's playbook - do the worst kinds of things then blame your adversaries for it, accuse them of being what the left actually is.