{"id":100864,"date":"2020-06-13T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100864"},"modified":"2020-06-13T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:34:09","slug":"democratic-governors-handling-two-different-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100864","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Governors Handling Two Different Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes, the statues being pulled down are going to “fight back”. (The Donald Win)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conservative groups protested the lockdown, demanding that people be allowed to work. They complained about the draconian measures used to infringe on basic freedoms. Condemnation against these protests came from leftist politicians, medical groups, and others. Many argued that these protestors increased the risk of widespread infection; they vilified the conservative protestors.<\/p>\n

Fast forward through time. An African American dies as a result of the process used to detain him. Protests and riots occur in Minneapolis and elsewhere in the country. Those that frowned on the peaceful conservative protests changed their tune with the leftist protests.<\/p>\n

From Newsweek:<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of easing the painful restrictions and striving to reopen America, many Democratic mayors and governors, infuriatingly, sought to extend them even further–sometimes in open defiance of the First Amendment and always in open defiance of the concerns expressed by ordinary citizens desperate to be allowed to go back to work and live their lives.<\/p>\n

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, for instance, condescendingly quipped that anti-lockdown protesters who want to earn a living should simply “take a job as an essential worker.”<\/p>\n

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, also a Democrat, was especially caustic, calling the protesters who showed up at the Michigan state capitol “racist” and fretting that they were spreading the virus by assembling in public.<\/p>\n

“This is not appropriate in a global pandemic,” Whitmer complained. “But it’s certainly not an exercise of democratic principles where we have free speech.”<\/p>\n

Whitmer was especially distraught over the fact that some anti-lockdown protesters chose to exercise their legal right to openly carry firearms, interpreting the behavior as some kind of a “threat” rather than a visually poignant way for ordinary citizens to express their determination to protect their constitutional rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These arguments; however, aren’t consistent with the arguments they advanced for the George Floyd protests and riots. One of those that criticized the conservative protests actually interacted with the leftist demonstrators.<\/p>\n

Newsweek has more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My Op-Ed ?@Newsweek<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democrats' Hypocrisy on Riots Reveals Political Nature of Coronavirus Lockdowns | Opinion https:\/\/t.co\/7vsfFnNYDo<\/a><\/p>\n

— Boris Epshteyn (@BorisEP) June 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n