But that's the lens of realpolitik unfortunately. Like I said, it is immoral but it is a political advantageous thing to do. It does bring up an interesting conundrum though. Do you bother saving the people who will hate you for doing so? Let's say the Trump brownshirts come into Portland to restore order and crack skulls and in the conflict they do kill like five more unarmed (apparently that just means innocent to some people) people. Would that actually help the situation there?

I will say Trump has done some pants-on-head retarded decisions but how he's handling these riots is honestly pretty politically savvy. He offers help to mayors he knows will reject it then lets the cities reap the consequences. How many times does Trump need to say "All they have to do is gimme a call, they have to ask" before the blame is no longer on him?