Did you read my response to David Flamberg above? That’s how I’d reply to you — the difference between unrest (ranging from peaceful protests to riots) and political violence (intimidation).

Which examples are you talking about? I’m curious. Beware of proof by anecdote — individual events are not meaningful unless they signify a trend.

So, throwing rocks at police officers is really more stupid than intimidating; in a pinch, the cops could just shoot everyone and go home. Heather Heyer is an anecdote with more meaning, however: during the George Floyd protests, there were over a hundred incidents of cars ramming protesters. In response, multiple red-state legislatures passed or considered laws to weaken penalties for doing just that.

Breaking windows in Portland is protesters trashing a liberal city. If they then went to a Republican-dominated area and did the same thing, that would be intimidation. On the other hand, January 6th was definitely political and significant enough to warrant concern, even if it were isolated. But of course, it isn’t — there was at least one state in which a GOP legislator allowed protesters into a state capitol, along with multiple cases of armed mobs descending on a state capitol, which is intimidation with or without violence.

Do you see my point?