Thomas Lifson:
“…The insurrectionists desperately want Trump to act precipitously. They would love for a Kent State–like massacre to take place, after which they can portray Trump as Hitler.
But it is the insurrectionists who are overplaying their hand. The fanatic support of the media ensures that they are blissfully unaware of the revulsion from the general public to tearing down statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, and even abolitionists. They do not get negative feedback, and are auto-intoxicating, as mobs always do. They mistake the initial support for racial justice from the vast majority for long-term support for a racialist agenda that ends up persecuting white people for their race…”