Wasn’t this Kabuki Theater all supposed to end with the installation of the Hiden/Barris Administration?

Apparently, Antifa in Portland and Seattle didn’t get the memo because the “Black Bloc” was out in both cities on Wednesday night, breaking windows — at the offices of the Democrat Party — burning flags, and engaging in running battles with the police.

On the ground in Portland, Ore. for @townhallcom. A group of Antifa marchers just attacked the city’s Democratic Party office. They broke windows and spray painted the building.

Some of them had a hard time breaking the windows. pic.twitter.com/v0PSM7rEvd

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) January 20, 2021

Antifa in Portland burns an American and Joe Biden flag in the street. pic.twitter.com/iuUYPACfkw

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) January 21, 2021

A Starbucks came under attack in Seattle — again.  It’s comical how one of the most “woke” companies in the country is regularly singled out by Antifa for this kind of treatment.

A Starbucks is broken into across from Pike Place Market in Seattle #SeattleProtests #J20 #Seattle #Antifa pic.twitter.com/EXY8eKucbW

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 21, 2021

An Amazon Go store also suffered at the hands of Antifa.

An Amazon Go store is graffitied and window smashed in downtown Seattle #Seattle #SeattleProtests #J20 pic.twitter.com/6upWS3pO8V

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 21, 2021

“No cops, no prisons, total abolition!” Antifa march through Seattle tonight for an Inauguration Day J20 demonstration #Seattle #SeattleProtests #J20 pic.twitter.com/zGit8Uqmkn

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 21, 2021

Back in the summer the “Defund the Police” chants were just a nice rallying cry for the Democrat party’s constituencies to align themselves with one another.

What’s their excuse now?  Do they really want the Hiden/Barris Administration to halt the practice of incarcerating criminals and let them out to prey on the weak?  Apparently so.

Police in Seattle were pretty active in keeping Antifa in check through most of the evening.

Police officers follow the group on bicycles as a speaker blares an announcement ordering the group to disperse #Seattle #SeattleProtests #J20 pic.twitter.com/joUO2cG98C

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 21, 2021

One arrest made as police order the group to disperse from near Pike Place Market in Seattle #J20 #Seattle #Antifa #SeattleProtests pic.twitter.com/9KSsXSFnqu

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 21, 2021

It will be interesting to watch in the days and weeks ahead if the tolerance for this activity by the Democrat politicians in Portland and Seattle remains what it has been, or if they finally decide that the toll it is taking on their police and city budgets is too much.  I expect we’ll see the media narrative on these “protests” begin to shift in the weeks ahead.