What Is the Violence in American Cities All About?

It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about.

Ostensibly, many of the summer demonstrations were in protest over the gruesome detention and death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.

Three months later, few of those trying to burn down a Portland police precinct - with police barricaded inside - or looting the high-end boutiques of Chicago's Magnificent Mile, or indiscriminately beating up innocent pedestrians, appear to be driven by Floyd's death.

The media romanticized the "Summer of love" unrest and downplayed the violence.

Still others claim the violence is mostly careerist-driven.

As with most cultural revolutions that wish to start things over at "Year zero," the violence is aimed at America's past in order to change its present and future.

Only a despised, dynamic American economy allows millions to divorce from it for a summer of protest.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2020/08/27/what-is-the-violence-in-american-cities-all-about-n2575091