The Antifa came to Coeur d’Alene ID in the summer of 2020 from the Puget Sound area (IIRC) to do some mostly peaceful protesting. They were met by lots of locals armed with handguns and semi-auto rifles that arrested the Antifa play time before it could start. I would imagine the WAPost cried about that too.

Keep your mostly peaceful in Olympia, Seattle, and Portland.

Not really.
They know doing it in a Red State (the real ones, not the purple ones) would get them arrested — if not shot.

They only bully people they know will give in, or who already have.

https://www.sbsun.com/2020/06/02/black-lives-matters-protesters-being-met-with-opposition-a-new-trend/

https://www.gopusa.com/black-lives-matter-protests-being-met-by-armed-residents-in-some-small-cities/

https://michaelsavage.com/massresistance-overwhelms-black-lives-matter-protest-in-los-angeles-suburb/

WaPo spun the washing machine in high gear – see, there were only peaceful protests, really, so the city didn’t need all those armed people to show up just because Antifa was coming to town.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-armed-white-vigilantes/2020/06/04/09e17610-a5bb-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/06/26/antifa-rampages-through-portland-declaring-death-to-scotus-n584444

As expected.

IN Eugene, OR on Friday the riot didn’t metastasize, some got arrested. Almost as if in Portland rioting is condoned?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/06/24/president-joe-biden-finally-responds-to-dobbs-decision-n2609275

The president failed to mention that thanks to Roe’s companion case of Doe v. Bolton, abortion was legalized throughout all nine months of pregnancy. This was due to what the Court acknowledged as broadly-defined “health” exceptions, including the “well-being” of the mother, which could be whatever she and her doctor decided it was.

That is how we got from “safe, legal, and rare” to “all abortion all the time.”

Polls consistently show that the US public (in general) will tolerate abortion in the first trimester, look somewhat askance in the second, and reject it in the third.
When the Democrats went to straight-up infanticide, they gave away their game.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/06/25/feminist-writer-abortion-is-killing-and-thats-ok-n2609310?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1

PS In another Dobbs thread, Aggie posted a link to a post that could be a companion piece to the one Townhall dissects. It’s like the Left has some kind of Talking Points factory.

https://quillette.com/2022/06/24/the-tragedy-of-the-unwanted-child-what-ancient-cultures-did-before-abortion/

https://nypost.com/2022/06/22/biden-denounces-threatened-night-of-rage-over-anticipated-abortion-ruling/

A little-known group calling itself Jane’s Revenge proposed an evening of mayhem if the court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and returns abortion policy to states — as a leaked draft ruling indicates is possible.

“There’s a group that has been distributing flyers around Washington, DC, but also across the country and also online called Jane’s Revenge that declares there will be a night of rage, looting, burning, rioting if Roe is overturned,” Al Jazeera reporter Kimberly Halkett said at Jean-Pierre’s regular briefing.

“What message does this White House have in advance of that ruling as we get closer to it?” Halkett asked.

Jean-Pierre replied that “violence and destruction of property have no place in our country under any circumstance. And the president denounces this action.”

“Actions like this are completely unacceptable regardless of our politics,” Jean-Pierre added. “So we have denounced that and we will continue to denounce any violence or threats.”

Why denouncement instead of support for “making your voices heard” in a kinetic fashion?
Because President Biden doesn’t dare undercut the rationale of the January 6 Committee for indicting President Trump for inciting “insurrection” – and anyway, plenty of non-presidents are advocating that course over the decision, so he doesn’t have to.

https://notthebee.com/article/no-words-liberals-are-waging-a-terrifying-insurrectionist-war-against-the-legitimacy-of-the-supreme-court-because-theyre-mad-that-roe-v-wade-got-repealed

Biden did finally get around to speaking, and ratified his press secretary’s statement.
But the context is important.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/06/24/president-joe-biden-finally-responds-to-dobbs-decision-n2609275

Biden closed his remarks by finally emphasizing “peaceful, peaceful, peaceful” protests with “no intimidation,” as intimidation and violence are “not speech.”
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The White House and the Democratic Party have been heavily criticized for a failure to appropriately condemn such reactions from those who have targeted pro-life organizations, pregnancy centers and churches with vandalism and even violence. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has even been the target of an alleged assassination plot. President Biden had yet to directly address and call out such violence until Friday afternoon.

Brian E:

I agree.

The Supreme Court rulings on Dobbs and the Second Amendment are excellent examples of why I disagree with you that the “left is winning the war.”

We’ve taken some hard hits, as I granted in my original comment, but in war one must attend not only to territory lost, but the delta of the changes occurring.

If this is losing, I can only hope we continue losing.

Given this fact: (a) it is less likely that, again assuming one accepts the premise of “the patriarchy” and so on, the “oppression” of serious abortion restrictions will be reimposed to a draconian extent even in those states whose electorates are very conservative; and (b) it follows that, as and where greater restrictions on the abortion franchise are imposed in this or that jurisdiction, women and minorities, in their capacities as legislators, judges, etc., will be playing a greater and more direct role in imposing them than they were in a position to do in those previous eras. After all, there will be some pro-life women in state legislatures and governorships now who would not have been in those positions prior to Roe. Thus, it will clearly not be any longer simply the “white male patriarchy”, etc., but more of a societal cross-section which will be imposing any new limitations.

I guess this is another way of making the point that some segments of the activist Left are still living in 1959.