A mob of leftist activists surround federal agents, throwing rocks, insults and more. The tension is heightened as politicians do ... well, nothing. Yes, police are dispatched as crowd control, but they don’t do all that much to control the crowd until at last the tear gas and flashbangs are finally deployed.

This is Los Angeles in 2025. This is also exactly what Democrats want and who they are.

Democrats have made emotional appeals to their activists — appeals based on decades of identity politics and fomenting racial tensions and hatreds. The party of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation never changed its objective, only its tactics. Segregation now is declared “tolerance” and “cultural respect” at race-based graduation ceremonies and dances and in segregated dormitories.

When ICE conducts raids and arrests illegal aliens for deportation, local politicians embrace the illegal aliens at the expense of the rule of law out of obedience to the principles of identity politics. No........

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