Anatomy of a Failed Moral Panic

... how is it possible we know so little about these cells, and when will we see mass arrests of these paid agitators and the politicians who are determined to use whatever power they have to help them?...

Vice President J.D. Vance addressed some of these concerns in a Thursday press conference, going after corporate media headlines that never mentioned Good’s use of her vehicle as a murder weapon.

“What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman … is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to doxx, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job,” he said...

This car-ramming was just one of 100 similar attacks against federal law enforcement since Jan. 20, 2025, as The Federalist reported. But we’ve known about these kinds of people at least since 2020, when they came out in droves to burn American cities to the ground and loot everything in sight...

“We’re not going to give in to terrorism on this. And that’s exactly what’s happening: People trying to antagonize, to commit acts of violence, they throw bricks at them, sometimes they shoot at them, sometimes they doxx them, sometimes they go to their place of residence and harass their families,” Vance said. “This is classic terrorism, and we cannot say that when a far-left fringe is inciting violence against our brave law enforcement officials that we’re no longer going to enforce the law.”

.... The system created by the Democrats has resulted in the perverse incentive to sow chaos in order to reap the political benefits. And now replicate that system dozens if not hundreds of times across every facet of the federal government and blue state governments. Radical leftist foot soldiers, the state and federal bureaucracy, the professional NGO activists, and Democrat politicians all work in concert to leech taxpayer dollars toward their clients and their causes. They work tirelessly to slowly but surely weaken America in the name of power and greed. The anarchy that they unleash on American cities during this process is a feature, not a bug.

Completely dismantling the system is the only way to stop it. Ending mass immigration, restricting entitlements, culling government bureaucracy, and throttling NGOs must all take place to put an end to this vicious cycle that threatens to tear our country apart and render the phrase “law and order” truly meaningless.