Saturday morning the news was all about the riots in Chicago Friday night and the rioters' success at getting a Trump rally canceled. Will that help or hurt Donald Trump? That question has left some very smart people scratching their heads. See Rick Moran's Is the violence at Trump's Chicago rally a campaign game changer? and Richard Fernandez' Chicago.
The short answer is that they will help Trump. They've given Trump "victimhood" status, of all things.
As for the riots, maybe they'll subside, or maybe they'll become more frequent, but the Trump crowd appears ready to fight back. As Fernandez says in the aforementioned article:
Still, it is doubtful the Left has actually shut the Donald down. They've most likely supercharged him. Saul Alinsky taught his disciples that confrontation -- of precisely the kind that just transpired in Chicago -- radicalized people far more efficiently than speeches, and exhorted organizers to seek every opportunity, not to "get along", but to let it all hang out. By that standard the Trump supporters have been given a master class in radicalization.
Fight rules: #1. Don't start a fight. #2. Don't lose a fight.
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