State-Sanctioned Anarchy

Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America

• In Washington, a town where everyone flaunts their credentials, Trump's election "blew the door wide open" for people like Julio Rosas to get a job.
• "If there was any time to get into the media without a college degree," Rosas said he thought to himself back in late 2016. "If the media coverage of the 2016 campaigns and elections was this crazy, then the media's reaction to the administration would be just as, if not more, insane." Rosas would be proven right.

The police-related killing of George Floyd sparked mass demonstrations that quickly devolved into violent and bloody riots, which were reinvigorated by other police-involved shootings, such as the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The destruction this rampant anarchy and disorder caused totaled well over $1 billion, making it the most expensive insurance event in American history

Julio Rosas: Fiery But Mostly Peaceful

• In many ways, Rosas embodies the America First coalition that elected President Donald Trump in 2016
• He was raised in the suburbs of Chicago by an immigrant from Mexico and his step-father, who worked as a software engineer
• Rosas dropped out of college and became a senior writer at Townhall
• His book gives an in-depth first-hand account of what Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan once called the "summer of love"
• The riots of 2020 were an attempt at an anarcho-socialist regime-sanctioned disorder, with the ultimate goal of tearing down the American system and starting a new one
  1. Make no mistake, the riots of 2020 were a real attempt at anarchotyranny, where widespread disorder in the name of left-wing prerogatives forces everyday people to become complicit in that disorder or risk their own ruin.
  2. Rosas, who by then had established himself as a capable journalist at the Washington Examiner and later at Townhall, where he’s currently a senior writer, found himself on the ground in Minneapolis and Kenosha, Portland and Seattle, to document the demonstrations and destruction in real time.
  3. The riots of 2020 were a real attempt at anarchotyranny, where widespread disorder in the name of left-wing prerogatives forces everyday people to become complicit.
  4. “I was never a good student at school, especially math,” Rosas said, but both his mother, who did not have a college degree, and his step-father “really instilled in me the idea that I should go to college.” Rosas didn’t feel strongly about college either way but figured he’d do what makes his parents happy.
  5. Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America, by Julio Rosas, (DW Books: May 2022), 208 pages.
  6. I share his pessimism, but found a silver lining: Next time the country devolves into chaos, maybe Julio Rosas will write another book about it. 

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