by Justin Haskins, Townhall:

We are living in truly dangerous times.

In the midst of a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 180,000 Americans, protests, riots, looting, vandalism, and violence have gripped cities across the country for months.

The most recent example occurred on Thursday, following President Trump’s Republican National Convention speech.

Attendees of the address, including several convention speakers and members of Congress, were ruthlessly harassed and threatened by a mob of left-wing radicals as they exited the White House.

Among those most in danger were Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., his wife, and two of their female friends. Just one block from his hotel, Paul was surrounded by a group of more than 100 people, who began shouting threats at Paul and attempting to grab him.

A small group of Washington, D.C. police officers then gathered around Paul and started to escort the senator to safety. Then, the mob turned even more violent.

“They’re attempting to push the police over to get to me, so at one point they push a policeman backwards, he stumbles and he’s trying to catch his balance and I catch the back of his flak jacket to stabilize him to make sure he’s OK because he’s our defense,” Paul said in an interview with Fox & Friends on Friday. “If he’s down, the mob’s loose on us.”

“I truly believe this with every fiber of my being,” Paul added, “had they gotten at us they would have gotten us to the ground, we might not have been killed, might just have been injured by being kicked in the head, or kicked in the stomach until we were senseless.”

Unfortunately, the chaos in Washington, D.C. on Thursday evening is just one event in a long list of violent attacks waged by leftists over the past three months.

In May, protesters torched a police station in Minneapolis and set fire to numerous other buildings in the area, including nearby St. Paul.

Earlier this summer, far-left Marxists in Seattle seized control of several city blocks and declared it an “autonomous zone,” pushing police out of large parts of the city, leading to anarchy. Not until two teenagers were murdered did the far-left Seattle city government clear protesters out of the area.

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