To: Lakewhut
The mob on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 were hardly Communists. Ask what would have happened if the police mowed them down. You would have dozens of martyrs, and the “deplorables” would be in open revolt against the government.
Consider the three examples I cited above. What if in 1905, on “Bloody Sunday”, instead of opening fire, the Czar politely accepted the petition, and told his staff to act on aspects that were tolerable. I doubt that anyone other than historians of failed Marxist movements would know who Lenin, Stalin or Trotsky were.
I don’t say one should “appease” a mob. But one can “catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”, and most mobs, by nature, are easily subverted and redirected.