It turns out that the presence of federal law enforcement officers was not the source of violence in Portland that it was made out to be. Violence has continued weeks after their withdrawal.

It has continued, not only in Portland, where a man was shot and killed over the weekend, but in several places around the country. Kenosha erupted following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. A couple of weeks before that, Chicago’s Miracle Mile suffered what some leftists called a “proletarian shopping spree” (what the rest of us call mass looting). Other examples abound.