And it does not have to be.
This is based on the volition of a small minority to be disruptive and belligerent, no matter what the provocation.
Bank robbers rob banks for a clear and for them, a real motive, which is to obtain, by any means necessary, access to some of the goods and services of this world by extralegal means. That by doing so, they put themselves outside the standing social contract, and are subject to arrest, trial, and imprisonment.
Like the bank robbers, who operate by any means necessary, the burn, loot and murder vandals have stepped outside the standing social contract by their actions, and should be subject to arrest, trial and imprisonment.
In a sane world, where peace and civil order are upheld as virtues and supported by local elected officials, these outlaw factions would have already be taken into custody and subjected to penalties under the law. But law itself has broken down in many parts of the nation, and anarchy reigns in many population centers, almost all of which share one common characteristic - the lack of will by the elected officials to enforce existing law, and the failure to prosecute the miscreants in a just and lawful manner.
This nation stands at a crossroads - law and order, or chaos and anarchy. There is no possible compromise between those two choices.
This nation stands at a crossroads - law and order, or chaos and anarchy. There is no possible compromise between those two choices.
We passed that fork in the road decades ago. This nation was at crossroads when Bush was elected in 2000. Instead of rolling back the Clinton era progressivism he allowed it to metastasize. Now two decades later all of our institutions are corrupt and unreformable.
President Trump is a great man but without a party supporting him he faces an impossible task. The best scenario going forward is that the next four years will look like that last four years.