Beware the left’s growing embrace of ‘mob rule’ protests

For all of the nation’s disgust on the Jan. 6, 2021 US Capitol riot, American lefties are on the verge of comparable outrages as lawful efforts to petition the federal government develop ever nearer to outright intimidation of lawmakers.

A dozen unruly “Tax the wealthy” demonstrators earned themselves arrest Monday by occupying the historic Battle Room within the state Capitol.

That adopted the arrest of three dozen protesters the Friday earlier than, half of a giant tenant-activist mob exterior Gov. Hochul’s workplace demanding the state price range embody the “Good Trigger Eviction” universal-rent-control invoice.

In the meantime, it’s now virtually routine for lefties to rally exterior Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer’s dwelling in Park Slope, typically raging by way of the evening.

Contemplate, too, final summer season’s indignant pro-abortion demonstrations on the properties of a number of US Supreme Court docket justices, in clear violation of federal regulation — although the Justice Division refused to take any enforcement motion.

That “activism” even impressed a mentally unwell younger man to maneuver to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

In the summertime of 2020, protests after George Floyd’s loss of life changed into rolling riots throughout the nation, to not point out the months-long assaults on the federal courthouse in Portland.

After which there’s Antifa, which simply final month in Atlanta attacked police with Molotov cocktails on the “Cop Metropolis” coaching website.

Imagining that you simply in some way symbolize the “actual majority” isn’t any excuse for violence or intimidation, whether or not from left or proper.

Although badly deluded, the Jan. 6 rioters believed their trigger was simply — precisely as these mobs swarming New York’s Capitol do.

It may take only some excessive radicals infiltrating a far-left crowd within the Capitol to convey tragedy to Albany.

The left must rethink its now-routine tactic of in-your-face intimidation earlier than that occurs.