Victor Davis Hanson Aug 27, 2020
It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about. So
far, hundreds of police have been injured, dozens of people have been
killed and we have seen billions of dollars in property and collateral
damage. Ostensibly, many of the summer demonstrations were in
protest over the gruesome detention and death of George Floyd while in
Minneapolis police custody on May 25. Yet three months later, few
of those trying to burn down a Portland police precinct — with police
barricaded inside — or looting the high-end boutiques of Chicago’s
Magnificent Mile, or indiscriminately beating up innocent pedestrians,
appear to be driven by Floyd’s death.............No matter — cultural revolutions are incoherent and nihilist........The point of the mob is to wipe out what it cannot create. It topples what it can neither match nor even comprehend...........To Read More....
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