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I just read Josh Marshall picking up on this in Talking Points Memo. He writes this morning: "That's not protest; it's mob violence. The one saving grace of last night's free-for-all and earlier ones is the sheer prevalence of social media. We're seeing smartphone videos mainly from journalists who were on the scene. But if you look in the background of these videos, almost everyone who isn't hitting, getting hit or actively taunting is holding up a hand cam of some sort. Everyone involved is readily identifiable, from multiple angles. They should all be identified, tracked down and prosecuted, not primarily as punishment but as deterrence."

I think he gets it. While he can posture about Trump, he realizes these actions by Democrats--lets be clear, these are Democrats--is wrong.

"Local police authorities, perhaps with some federal coordination or encouragement, need to make clear that violence at political events will lead to prosecution and punishment. That's the only way to keep this genie, this bacillus in the bottle."

"Public violence is almost always wrong and criminal. But it's substantially worse when it crosses wires with the political process because then it creates not simply a danger of individual physical injuries but the dismemberment and breakdown of the political process itself. When norms buckle they need to be reinforced and backstopped by law enforcement. That is no more that the state and civil order defending itself."

His other BS, that Trump started it, is just that BS, political BS. At the end of the day, or in this case, the beginning, it is good that Josh sees the bad that Democrats are doing. Bet we'll see more of this once they see the results of people rallying around Trump, not around Democrats.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-the-san-jose-blow-up