Notice that Pakman says that most of the serious arrests were for arson and firearms, i.e. actual insurgent activity like torching perceived enemy outposts and armed expropriation of enemy goods. I have identified seven major factions in the events of the last five months, but only one of the seven actually qualifies as “revolutionary.” The situation has mostly involved do-gooders, cosplayers, cops, and sport rioters, intermixed with people that would qualify as “insurgents” in most societies.

A new analysis from the Associated Press confirms that most people arrested at recent protests are not leftist radicals, as claimed by Donald Trump and Republicans