The Green New Deal Dress Rehearsal
Ongoing rioting, vandalism, arson and looting are compounding problems for many cities and minority communities.
Ongoing rioting, vandalism, arson and looting are compounding problems for many cities and minority communities.
“Although he moved away from Minnesota almost two years ago, Crockett (a black protester) told his grandfather he needed to go. In response, his grandfather, a retired Marine, quoted Che Guevara. “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” That’s the BBC (very sympathetically) describing the motivation of a Minneapolis looter.
COVID-19 has devastated the U.S. economy and 36 million Americans have filed for unemployment since the pandemic began. To prevent permanent economic damage, the country must devise a plan to jump-start the economy that doesn’t mortgage the future to pay for the present.
There are serious prudential reasons not to invoke the Insurrection Act, but calls to do so are far from un-American.