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What the LA riots have in common with the George Floyd unrest

10 June 2025

1:18 AM

10 June 2025

1:18 AM

This weekend’s immigration protests in LA showed every element in American politics at its absolute worst. The right was rabidly xenophobic, President Trump belligerent and authoritarian. Democratic leadership clueless, unfocused, weak and in denial – and the left manipulative and deliberately violent. Anyone with a whit of sense stayed as far away from the proceedings as possible.

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