That isn’t an idle question.
Congressman Dave Min relentlessly tries to insert himself into any controversy, no matter how small or far removed from his congressional duties, if he thinks will earn him brownie points with the Democratic Party’s hard-progressive base.
So, naturally, he has been pumping out press releases lambasting the Trump Administration’s vigorous policy of deporting illegal immigrants. Like the rest of the Left, he is blaming the anti-ICE rioting not on the rioters – but on the Bad Orange Man.
But a June 10 Min press release calls into question whether Min is actually delusional – as in, “holding false beliefs or judgments about external reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.”
In the news release, Min figuratively wrings his hands that using 700 US Marines to protect federal facilities and officers from rioters is “dangerous,” “authoritarian”, yada yada yada.
It’s this gem that casts serious doubt on Min’s ability to perceive reality:
“Local and state police have proven to be quite capable of handling the agitators who are using peaceful protests as an excuse to engage in criminal behavior.”
Huh?
Has Congressman Min been living in a cave for the past week? Has he seen any of the multitude of videos showing these agitators – in an organized fashion – rampaging in downtown Los Angeles looting, violently attacking law enforcement, destroying property and endangering lives? It is obvious to anyone with eyes, common sense and a mind not addled by ideology that local law enforcement is not capable of handling the rioters.
Here’s how Min described the rioting in LA in a June 8 press release:
“Some Los Angeles residents have responded by destroying private property and throwing rocks at federal agents. This must stop immediately.
“Some Los Angeles residents“? If the unrest were just a matter of “some Los Angeles residents,” this thing would have been over days ago.
On the same day that Min issued that absurd statement, here’s what what LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell had to say about “some Los Angeles residents” doing a little rock throwing:
“We are overwhelmed…Tonight, we had individuals out there shooting commercial-grade fireworks at our officers…that can kill you…They’ll take backpacks filled with cinder blocks and hammers, break the blocks, and pass the pieces around to throw at officers and cars, and even at other people.”
Astonishing. Why is Dave Min so terrified of telling the truth about the rioting? Why does he treat these violent rioters with kid gloves?
Does he really not see it? Does he, like so many on the Left, implicitly believe that enforcing immigration law is immoral and illegitimate, and that a certain level of political street violence by left-wing radicals is to be expected and tolerated? When Democratic leaders like Min speak this way about the rioters, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that they view them more as embarrassing ideological relatives than as dangerous radicals.
