Who Owns the Streets? - American Thinker Between us and this looming dark age stands only the tall, awkward figure of Donald Trump — and the handful of determined patriots around him.  Though we may love and admire our president, it is terrifying to think that our freedom, and perhaps our lives, hinges on the bulwark of this quirky, counter-punching septuagenarian.  He cannot delay displaying the blunt instruments of power very long.  The longer he waits, the bloodier the consequences will be.  By hesitating, he risks making himself no more legitimate in people's eyes than Governor Cuomo or Mayor Durkan.  One may attempt to thread the needle only so long to solve a problem than any competent statesman would know requires the judicious application of a hammer.  Anarchist mobs are rarely mollified by gentle means.  We dare not shirk before an enemy ideology that has proven itself quite willing to ruin, to plunder, and to kill. In the paradoxical calculus of freedom, patriots must stand together, or we'll fall as individuals.  Decent men and women love our county.  Anarchists, ideologues, degenerates, and those aliens with no desire to assimilate despise it.  There can be no compromise between those who love America as a happy mixture of Enlightenment ideals and Christian morality and those who wish to level our country with Marxist dogmas and import a replacement population.  There is no middle ground to be had with people who hate not only us, but our history.  I have no desire to cast the world in either racial or ideological terms, but if pushed into a corner, I prefer even the most brutal nationalism to subjugation or death.  This conflict is not of our making, but it is here. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/who_owns_the_streets.html Yesterday, in Tulsa, the President made mention that "when our side starts to fight," the other side will be very sorry (or words to that extent, I'm looking for a video clip.) Have we been called out?