In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Conflicting reports have come out of Portland, OR on the status of ICE enforcement, violent protests, attacks on and arrests of conservative journalists, and the Trump administration's reaction. For context. the YouTube video embedded above gives an idea of the day-to-day routine downtown. The restaurant owner conducting the tour attributes much of the problem to major businesses that allowed office workers to work from home during the pandemic, but never required them to return to the office afterward, abandoning public space to the Lumpenproletariat , who in the video look like nice college kids who are nevertheless all nodded out. The political alignment in Portland appears to be an entitled bourgeoisie aligned with homeless but middle-class-looking young white druggies and violent leftist radicals, against the working class broadly defined. A conservative journalist, Katie Daviscourt, said she was attacked Tuesday night by an Antifa-affiliated protester who gave her a black...