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Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have it exactly wrong on feds vs. protesters in Portland

If only mobs were allowed to destroy federal property without consequence. Then there wouldn t have to be any dispute over federal agents defending a federal courthouse in Portland, Ore.

As it is, Portland s mayor, Ted Wheeler, who presides over a city that has become a watchword over the years for left-wing thuggery unchecked by municipal authorities, has roused himself to a state of high dudgeon over federal officers trying to counter ongoing assaults on a federal building.

He calls the feds a direct threat to our democracy and argues that they are ­engaging in unconstitutional arrests and inflaming protests that he had hoped would end within a matter of days.

via nypost.com