US on the brink of ‘mass civil unrest’

US Studies Centre Non-Resident Fellow James Brown says the United States is facing “extreme” political unrest as thousands protest lockdown restrictions. The National Guard has been deployed to maintain order among protestors, but a number of citizens have armed themselves, encouraged by President Trump’s message on Twitter reminding Americans of the Second Amendment. Mr Brown told Sky News “mass civil unrest” was intermittent throughout US history because of a “deep independent streak that believes the government is a nice-to-have not a must-have”. “There is that part of the US political psyche that takes rights to a complete extreme but the practical outcome of all of this is that we’re still seeing inefficient allocation of resources across the US”. He said state governors had been “going it alone” with limited assistance from the federal government. “That’s not going to lead to the most efficient or most effective outcome for the US,” he said. Image: AP Via news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site https://www.news.com.au