Did you miss the part where they were threatening to kill him? Where they said "we're not going to let you go alive until you say you're for criminal justice reform" and when his wife tried to explain the 22 criminal justice reform bills he has authored, they started getting agitated, called her a racist, and started screaming?
That is not political theater. That is not "a vast gulf." When thugs with a history of violence surround you and threaten to kill you, you have every reason to take them at their word. But you did get one thing right-- we the ordinary people don't have a phalalnx of cops to protect us from these thugs. The cops are minutes away at best, and if BLM gets it's way, they won't be coming at all.
And last night BLM/Antifa murdered a man in Portland walking down the street because they believed he supported President Trump. They then cheered about it because "he was a ****ing Nazi!" Mayor Wheeler is having a press conference where he's saying Trump voters deserve violence for what they've done to the country.
Rand Paul was correct to be in fear for his life. The only difference between the kid in Kenosha and the murder victim last night is that the kid was able to kill his attempted murderers before they could murder him.
Also, I've thought about this long and hard. I've counseled that a limited application of law and order could de-escalate this.
But I'm done. I literally could not care less whether they pulled the triggers or are only cheering for the ones who did so. They're rabid animals and their violence is escalating. Its only a matter of time before they start attacking people in their homes for not supporting their insanity.
Invoke the Insurrection Act, Mr. President. Start with Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff (who today blamed the murder on, I kid you not, Russian infiltration of BLM/Antifa to aid President Trump) and every Senator, Concressman, Governor, Mayor, DA, Prosecutor and media figure who's supported this band of Marxist murdering scumbags. I don't care if someone thinks that would make President Trump a dictator either. We either have the rule of law or don't... and if we don't then we have no country anyway and I'd rather have a benevolent King for our next government than malicious murderous despots who want me, my family, my friends and loved ones dead.
Besides, at this point I think President Trump might be the reincarnation of Cincinnatus and wouldn't hold the power past the crisis anyway... if he were going to go autocrat he would have done so a long time ago.
Also no, doing so will not START a civil war. The civil war ALREADY STARTED and the other side is shooting to kill unarmed people they even believe support the other side.
Shoot all the rioters, hang the people funding them and put everyone who's cheered the murderers on into prison for providing material aid to domestic terrorists.