The Conventions Proved Only The GOP Will Stand Up Against Civil Unrest

During the four nights of the 2020 DNC, the Black Lives Matter mantra was repeated and alluded to numerous times in a consistent drumbeat. The topic of police brutality and reminders of the death of George Floyd were thrust into as many segments as could be justified. Yet, absent from the constant refrain of America’s shortcomings was one major thing: any recognition — let alone condemnation — of the chaos, unrest, and violence that has rocked cities all across America in the last three months.

Since Floyd’s death, at least 30 people have died in waves of savage looting and rioting. More than $500 million in property damages are estimated to have occurred in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area alone. Many of the businesses smashed and torched will never reopen. The damages caused by combinations of vicarious opportunists, frenzied mobs, and organized neo-Marxists acted as the final nails in coffins already fashioned by the untold economic devastation of the coronavirus lockdowns.

While Biden’s campaign finally issued an article condemning the violent looting and rioting that began on May 26, the explicit denunciation was published five days after the mayhem in Minneapolis began.