From Delaney Hall to Freedom 250, lefty violence is what real insurrection looks like

Ten days and counting of anti-ICE riots outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall.Threats made to the safety of performers booked for a national celebration of America’s 250th birthday.We could be in for another long, hot summer of leftist violence.Last week rocker Bret Michaels pulled out of the planned Freedom 250 State Fair in Washington, DC, citing “concerns” regarding “the safety of my fans, band, crew, family and myself, including threats that are completely unfounded and unforgivable.”An earlier Freedom 250 event was marred by vandalism, NBC News reported Tuesday, when saboteurs cut fuel lines and contaminated the National Mall.As one social-media wag responded, “The fact that we are having a hard time throwing America a 250th birthday party because leftists are threatening to kill everyone involved is the most zeitgeist s–t I’ve ever seen in my life.”  Ever since President Donald Trump’s initial inauguration in 2017, leftist groups ranging from Antifa to Black Lives Matter to the Democratic Socialists of America to the ever-present ANSWER have been staging protests that very frequently turn violent. Under federal law, codified at 18 USC 2331(5), such events could be deemed domestic terrorism.That’s because they involve criminal acts “dangerous to human life” that “appear to be intended ..

.to intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion,” or to “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction.”Things like the Delaney Hall riots outside a New Jersey ICE facility, featuring not only violence but death threats against ICE agents, would seem to fit the bill.So would threats against prospective performers at a national event. “It is impossible to understand the politics of the left without grasping that it is all about deniable intimidation,” as writer Richard Fernandez put it decades ago.But today they’re not even bothering to deny it — a...