Column: What if, in those violent big cities run by liberal Democrats, the politics were different? - Chicago Tribune

Column: What if, in those violent big cities run by liberal Democrats, the politics were different? - Chicago Tribune
"You want to play a game?
...What if, rather than liberal Democratic mayors in Democratic towns being overwhelmed by violence, things were reversed?

• What if these were Republican mayors, in red states, overwhelmed by violent protests from the right wing, confronted by people in MAGA hats or those middle-aged anti-tax tea party activists who always seemed to clean up after themselves when they protested?
• What if they were the ones rioting, burning and looting during their “mostly peaceful” protests, with bail money for the arrested provided by the staff of a Republican presidential candidate, and media making it clear there was great political value in the violence?
• And what if those Republican activists confronted fellow citizens in restaurants, shouting at them, demanding they demonstrate fealty to their politics by raising a fist?
• What if Republican mayors, rather than restore order in their ruined cities and towns, just hid in publicly subsidized fortresses, or bunkered behind police walls while the rest of you were left on your own, and then those mayors just ran off?

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