The Trump campaign’s attempts to paint the violent riots in American cities as a preview of “Biden’s America” have been met with media snark and Democrats lobbing back their own accusations of “Trump’s America.” Nonetheless, while the optics of the Trump campaign’s strategy haven’t been ironed out, it is clear that Democrats own these riots.
Joe Biden is leaning into the notion that the violence will stop if he’s president, claiming that it is Trump supporters acting as militias that are fueling the violence. This is, of course, a ridiculous assertion. The rioters who burned down Minneapolis and Kenosha were there because of the police killings of George Floyd and Jacob Blake. The ongoing messes in Portland and Seattle’s autonomous zone are not the making of Trump supporters but of antifa anarchists.
