This country has become so wussified. Someone smeared excrement on a sign? Oh dear me.
In Chicago, political campaigns have traditionally been waged with grenades and drive-bys. Each candidate makes a deal with one or more of the local gangs. Then those gangs shoot, stab and bomb those backing the other candidate. This is known as the ground game.
This is nothing new. Riots? Saints preserve us!
That started when Big Jim Colosimo worked hand in glove with aldermen Coughlin and McKenna, and was perfected with the pact between Al Capone and Big Bill Thompson.