At least the media finally came around to the idea that riots are scary

“…CNN’s Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and others were aghast Wednesday as the nation watched thousands of President Trump’s supporters storm the Capitol, breaching the premises, and rioting within the building. Aside from all the violence, though, they were otherwise peaceful!

Finally, the media understand how dangerous mobs can be. Good timing.

To be sure, Wednesday’s events were grotesque. This is how liberals are expected to behave — such as when all of Washington, D.C., was boarded up in anticipation of how the locals would react if Trump won reelection. Republican-leaning precincts didn’t have to do any boarding up because that’s not expected of them.

Nothing of late has really gone as expected, though.

The pro-Trump chaos in Washington didn’t come out of nowhere. The context is months of the media and Democrats excusing and often encouraging the rioting, looting, arson, and vandalism that took place over the summer and into the fall of 2020. Those were Democratic voters, the Black Lives Matter crowd, and antifa. Back then, terrified people in the United States were assured that the protests were “mostly peaceful,” even as they watched their communities and neighborhoods overrun by thugs demanding that the government “defund the police.”

Tapper had little to say about those riots, but on Wednesday, he called the scene at the Capitol an “absolutely shameful, disgusting situation.”

Ah, but I’m here in Washington, and I assure you, Jake, that the vast majority of the protests were peaceful!

Rioting isn’t a good look for the U.S. This would be easier to explain if the media had believed it in 2020…”