As the first part of our series analyzing the disturbing aspects of Molly Osberg’s “journalism,” we will be tackling her pieces surrounding Donald Trump’s inauguration and the violent response from far-left groups on the street.

On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017, Molly Osberg penned a piece for Splinter News entitled “Anti-Trump protestors didn’t stop the inauguration, but they sure made it a pain in the ass.”

Two days later, on January 22, Molly Osberg published another piece entitled “The DC protests aren’t over until everyone’s out of jail.”

In both of these pieces, Molly Osberg takes a startlingly blase, even laudatory, attitude towards left-wing street violence.

In the first article, Osberg spoke approvingly of the organization Disrupt J20, which had been “organizing for months to deploy and house out-of-towners interested in throwing Donald Trump’s inaugural celebration into various states of disarray.”

She continued to heap praise upon the protesters and their efforts to “shut down January 20 celebrations—or at least make them extremely unpleasant for those attending.”

And make it unpleasant they did, smashing buildings and burning vehicles.

When the police actually had the audacity to arrest some of these fine individuals, Molly Osberg rushed to their defense. In her second article, Molly wrote in support of the left-wing activists who helped get their imprisoned comrades out of jail, one of “the less camera-ready, but still crucial, logistical realities of mass actions like these.”

In neither piece was there any condemnation whatsoever of the violent actions of the protestors. The only criticism was based not in principles but in optics: the protests provided “salacious photo-ops” for right-wingers.

It is disturbing, to say the least, to see a semi-prominent internet journalist express open support for violent street protests. No lengthy explanation is necessary on our part as to why street violence, whether from the far-left or the far-right, is inimical to the values of a democratic society such as the United States.

If a right-wing journalist wrote about far-right neo-Nazi street violence in the same glowing tone with which Molly Osberg described the actions of Disrupt J20, he would be condemned across the political spectrum, and rightfully so. Yet there has been almost no condemnation of Molly Osberg and her apparent approval of violence committed by those on her side of the aisle.

What is equally disturbing is that a writer such as Molly Osberg has achieved a substantial online platform. It is a failure of left-wing internet journalism that she has been allowed to promulgate such dangerous views with little to no ideological opposition.