After Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis, America exhaled. It avoided another round of the last decade’s reciprocal ideological violence, including campus riots, armed protests against federal land use management, neo-Nazi violence, Black Lives Matter riots, and occupations of the U.S. and state capitols.

Many officials refuse to restore order because they sympathize with protests or are intimidated by them. Section 1986 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 can break the cycle by holding faithless executives liable for failing to stop discriminatory conspiracies based on race.