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Making Democrats Own Their “Summer Of Love”
American Conservative ^ | JULY 16, 2020 | James P. Pinkerton

Posted on 07/16/2020 6:38:08 AM PDT by george76

Let blue cities and their feckless leaders reckon with the destruction of the violence and looting.

Remember all those “peaceful protestors,” later amended to “mostly peaceful protestors”? You probably recall, also, the Main Stream Media’s determined effort to portray the people in the streets protesting the death of George Floyd as nothing but well-meaning reformers—until pictures and video made the spin wear thin.

Indeed, now even Democratic politicians are conceding that this wasn’t the “summer of love.”

With costly reality staring him in the face, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, on July 2, sent a letter to President Trump, formally requesting $15.6 million in federal disaster assistance for the damage done to Minneapolis and St. Paul during the protests/violence over the last two months. As Walz put it, “Nearly 1,500 businesses were damaged by vandalism, fire, or looting.” He added, “These corridors provide lifeline services like food, pharmaceuticals, health care, housing, and transportation to thousands of Minnesotans.”

In fact, Walz estimated that the total cost of the damage could be upwards of $500 million; he described the events in his state’s two largest cities as “the second most destructive incident of civil unrest in United States history after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.” Walz further observed, “The social and economic impacts of this incident will be felt for years, if not decades.”

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sometimes the damage done to a city in the wake of a riot unfolds over decades. For instance, Detroit has never recovered from the riot of 1967; the population of Motown fell from 1.67 million in 1960 to 713,000 in 2010.

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Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted, “Minnesota Dems willfully allowed Minneapolis to burn & then blamed the police whom they demonized. Now, they want the fed govt to pay the bill.

(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Michigan; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: arson; detroit; looting; minneapolis; minnesota; noaccountability; protestors; summeroflove; timwalz; typicalsedition; typicaltreason; violence; walz
Minneapolis to Mogadishu.
1 posted on 07/16/2020 6:38:08 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Seems to me everyone of these cities should leave a burned out storefront as a memorial to these protests.


2 posted on 07/16/2020 6:40:02 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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3 posted on 07/16/2020 6:46:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: george76

Use these as effective ads in local markets. Hopefully the Trump campaign is 110% geared up.


4 posted on 07/16/2020 6:50:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Diogenesis

Republican Congressional candidates have great ammunition for the election season.

The local Democrat congressman (Larson) is “moderate”, at least by Democratic standards, and he has steadfastly refused to attack rioters, looters, and statue defacers and destroyers.

He has been in office forever, but I guarantee you that a tough Republican challenge focusing on this issue could turn a non-competitive seat into a competitive one.

The key would be attack, attack, attack—there is absolutely nowhere to go in this district but up...


5 posted on 07/16/2020 8:00:11 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: george76
The "Summer of Love" is actually the "Summer of HATE"!

It's straight out of George Orwell's nightmare. The Democrat Party is the Party of Big Brother--and Orwellian paradox:

"Love is hate!"
"War is Peace!"
Freedom is Slavery!"

And above all:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!

George Orwell was a prophet.

6 posted on 07/16/2020 8:08:48 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of love the Angels!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

7 posted on 07/16/2020 10:55:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: george76

No candidate ran on defunding the police and having the police stand down during riots. We will see how popular these positions are in the next election.


8 posted on 07/16/2020 12:06:42 PM PDT by joshua c
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