DID BISMARCK FRET ABOUT THE PARIS COMMUNE?

It's pointless for Our President to offer even a Twitter threat about the associated encampments cluttering the downtowns of assorted cities, primarily along the coasts.  My relatively naïve view was that if the crazy coalition of the left wing of the Democrat party gets into some sort of sectarian spat with the more standard coalition of the left wing, any intervention at the urging of Donald Trump would simply create martyrs and meliorate the schism.

Kurt Schlichter, who has had some experience with pacification, in Los Angeles, and in Kosovo, offers an analysis using terminology that Moltke would grasp.

Many of us cons are furious that Trump is “doing nothing.” This is the wrong thing to think. Trump is only doing nothing if this is a kinetic operation; because this is an information operation, not going kinetic (sending in the troops) is doing something.

Paris's problem is Paris's problem.

Trump can and should let Seattle’s problem be Seattle’s problem. A small-scale riot in a peripheral city known for coffee, drizzle, and droning, garbage music is the very definition of a local problem. Why would Trump interject himself into it and relieve the mayor and governor of the consequences of their failure to keep order? Why would he stop them from showing the electorate exactly what the reeking cesspool they could expect after Gropey Joe defunds the police looks like?

Scumbagistan is a giant zit on the face of liberalism, and why should Trump pop it? He’s letting it fester for all of us to see – and winning the information war.

Understand that the leftist establishment would like nothing better than for Trump to go kinetic. That’s why it is baiting him, and hoping that those of us who are sick of these Lil’ Red Guards will pressure him into dropping in the paratroopers to bust some heads and – oh please, oh please, oh please – get caught on video Kent Stating up a batch of fresh new martyrs.

Likewise, Portland's problem is Portland's problem, and Portland's soy-boy mayor Tim Wheeler is in a bad place.

The mayor is in the familiar position of appeasing the crocodile in the hopes that it will eat him last.

In a incredibly ridiculous move, the Portland City Council tried to assuage the vocal leftists by taking a huge whack at the police department’s budget, cutting nearly $16 million from it.

Someone’s going to have to explain to me how removing millions from a police department does anything to make it a better department, assuming there are any issues to begin with?

Crocodile still hungry.

So did that make [the crazies] happy? No, it never does, they always want more. So they assembled last night outside of Wheeler’s apartment and declared it an “autonomous zone.” They demanded that $50 million be cut.

They blocked off the street and started setting up a zone like their compatriots in Seattle had done.

But their presumption was their undoing.

While the progressive mayor apparently doesn’t give a darn about the police or much of the.rest of the city, apparently annoying him at night and messing with his neighborhood is a no-no.

The crazies are going to be angry at Our President whether he sends in the Guard or not. Now they have to decide whether the mayor is a dubious ally or not.

Suddenly he realized that these folks weren’t doing good things and damaging the neighborhood, his neighborhood. He’s been letting them run wild all over the city for the last three years. But suddenly maybe a little bit of the terror that anarchists have spread in Portland finally, literally, came home to him. Karma came back to bite him in the butt.

So it often is with the ideologically pure.  "The present madness will wane like a virus, as it eats its own and terrifies its sympathizers that they may be next — unless, of course, a would-be Napoleon uses a 'whiff of grapeshot' and turns the mob into his personal cult."  That's V. D. Hanson, and, of course, you should read the whole thing, particularly for the sting in the tail.