If you’ve paid any attention to the news over the past two months, you’ve seen the increasingly chaotic protests breaking out involving pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrators taking to the streets and chanting about ceasefires, intifada, and all the rest. But they are only “protests” while they truly remain peaceful and organized. When property begins being damaged or people are attacked, they are officially riots. How long the current skirmishes continue may depend on how long it takes Israel to eradicate Hamas and for Gaza to return to some form of stability instead of being an active war zone. But even then, the riots may not be behind us for long because the riot season is very likely upon us again.
To explain this concept, Carlos Gonzalez has an excellent editorial at City Journal where he offers a brief history of recent rioting and how none of this activity could be mere happenstance. While there are always some protests breaking out in America over this or that, Gonzalez reminds us of the last time there was true, widespread rioting over a sustained period of time. That was in 2020, during what came to be known as the Summer of Love where people ostensibly…
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