The reaction among the left sites does not agree with your take. The impression I’m getting is that they understand this was an embarrassment for them and the whole thing has backfired badly.
That's part of it.
Another part is it is all fun and games for the Limo Liberals, Hipsters and wanna be anarchists to agitate and even organize riots to ¡Viva la Revolución! in their Mike Brown and Che tee shirts, but it is another to see a city with real people in real misery subjected to looting and riots.
That got what they asked for and what they actively worked to make happen only to realize that their handiwork is not what they thought it would be.
“The impression I’m getting is that they understand this was an embarrassment for them and the whole thing has backfired badly.”
Today. They’ll move on and repeat the highlights, omitting key aspects of the story until it’s Bush-Cheney-Halliburton and enshrined into the lore of the left. This has that “forever” smell to it.
YES, the ‘rank-and-file’ do know, but just like in the Republican Party, the ‘Elites’, aka RINOS, control the narrative. It doesn’t matter what the proles think, say or do. It is good to see, though. They may be waking up to a rude awakening.........................
I am thinking the same thing: The Left are making themselves look bad. Really bad.
When you are only concerned about optics and the optics fail, what else is there?