The crap Biden and Wallace pulled to deflect from Antifa and BLM - harping on the Proud Boys nonentities, "Antifa is just an idea" - were not just evasive tactics, but a real danger to the American people. Democrats are mainstreaming political violence.

When your response to violent left-wing groups trashing cities and killing people is "hey, what about this little band of online loudmouths nobody ever heard of before?" you are mainstreaming political violence. You're explicitly equating it with jerks writing nasty tweets.

Biden, like other Democrats before him, is signaling to Antifa/BLM that he has their backs. Their violence will be indulged, excused, and overlooked while Dems and media obsess over vastly smaller groups that aren't burning down cities or assaulting people in restaurants.

If you don't treat political violence as absolutely beyond the pale - no exceptions, no indulgences, no whining about unrelated nonviolent groups you don't like, no salutes to the righteous grievances of rioters - you are normalizing that violence, and there will be more of it.

Also, violence has to be denounced immediately. Waiting a few months and then musing that maybe the boys went a little overboard when they leveled a city block isn't good enough. Belated criticism is an effort to control political fallout from the violence, not a denunciation.

Democrat obsession with the white supremacist phantom menace has gone far beyond whataboutism or deflection. It's an ongoing effort to justify and encourage left-wing political violence, with dangerous consequences.

Why not organize hundreds of rioters and trash everything in sight to get what you want, when you know your Democrat buds will finger a busload of dumbasses in Hawaiian shirts or something as an equivalent or greater problem that the public should be MORE worried about?

The phantom menaces are also treated like problems the GOVERNMENT should be more worried about. Nobody's imposing mandatory indoctrination seminars to raise awareness about groups that are actually waging organized campaigns of political violence on the streets.

We have a real problem with organized left-wing political violence causing billions of dollars in damage, injuries, and deaths. That problem should be addressed directly and immediately. If some white supremacist group ever does the same, it should be addressed likewise. /end