“What year was that?”
1795 over the Jay Treaty. Now, remember, this was the Father of the American Revolution viewed by much of the country as a genuine hero - and even His Excellency was hardly immune from vitriol. I know you think history began last week, but just because you experience something now, doesn’t mean it has never happened before or that it has never been as “bad” before.
I asked you the date hoping that you would see the irrelevancy of your post, that was during the second half of PRESIDENT Washington’s second term, and they were EVENTS.
Those riots are events whose date and place we know about, they are not the worst, most sustained, most dishonest, non stop, national media campaign, like we have seen directed against Sarah Palin since August 29, 2008.