The nation
went up in flames this weekend. No one in charge stood up to save America. Our leaders dithered. They cowered. They openly sided with the destroyers. In many cases, they egged them on.
Later, they will deny doing any of this. They are denying it now. But you know the truth because you saw it happen.
This is how nations collapse. When no one in authority keeps the order, and when someone in our professional class encourage violence, American citizens are forced to defend themselves. They have no choice. No one else is going to defend them -- they know that now.
It's possible that more people will be hurt in coming days -- that would be a tragedy. But in an environment like this, more violence could very well lead to a cascade of new tragedies, to something far bigger and more destructive than anything we have seen so far.
So, this isn't over. It might simply be the beginning. We pray it isn't.
It's hard to think clearly about anything that's going on right now. The chaos, the destruction, the relentless lying from above -- it's all too much. Americans are bewildered, and they are afraid. But most of all, they are filled with rage, angrier than they have ever been.
The worst people in our society have taken control. They did nothing to build this country. Now, they are tearing it down. They are rushing us toward mass suicide.
Comment: Meanwhile, amid riots in DC residents are panicking after an explosion was heard, and mobs of protesters descended on the White House, and the historic St John's Church nearby was set alight by arsonists.
Trump called his presidential opponent Joe Biden 'clueless' over his campaign's decision to help fund efforts to bail out Minneapolis protesters who were arrested.
The governor of Minnesota has admitted to using intelligence support from the Pentagon in trying to crack down on the riots. Seems like it's not very far from troops being on the streets at this point.
In Louisville, Kentucky, police and protesters engaged in back and forth shooting after the city's imposed curfew, leading to a protester being killed. A journalist in DC who writes for the Gateway Pundit, Cassandra Fairbanks, had to arm herself in her home with her 9-year-old daughter after it was attacked by rioters outside.
Update (2 June): Police and National Guard troops pushed back protesters in DC using tear gas to clear a way for Trump to visit St. Johns church. A short time later, Trump gave a speech calling himself a "law and order" president and that he was "dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property."
DC residents went to Twitter to put up videos of the National Guard policing the streets of DC:
During Trump's address to the nation, he threatened to deploy the military anywhere around the country where state leaders failed to restore order, calling the rioters "domestic terrorists."