Certainly.

Unfortunately, what happened in the summer of 2020 was not, as CNN once said, "mostly peaceful protests". Numerous left leaning news organizations tried to spin those riots in that way. If you think that, then perhaps it says something about the news sources you use.

If there are 100 people waving signs and chanting while 500 loot and torch the Target, it is a riot. Plenty of Democratic politicians refused to denounce the violence, afraid of alienating constituents. Brandon Johnson, Chicago's esteemed mayor, said not to worry about looting since "these companies have insurance". He thought that police resources should go instead to address "structural racism". And he was not alone. BLM was pushing to defund the police and encouraging the idea that looting was reparations. Too many Democratic politicians were nodding along.

There were over 200 riots, not protests, that summer and, I believe, the vast majority of Americans were horrified by what they were seeing on the news. The point I was making is that the Republicans, as usual, missed an opportunity that Fall to make Democrats either agree with the looters or take a position contrary to BLM. The Republicans have always been incompetent in managing their messaging and this was a prime example of that.