I'll provide a rebuttal in a similar format to the original to serve as an example of why it is completely unhelpful and unreasonable.
One side violently took to the streets in multiples cities, destroying many small businesses, and causing significant civil unrest.
The other attempted to protect the citizens being attacked in those events and discourage further violence.
One may say that these events weren't strictly Dem vs Rep events, but current hostilities and ideas would suggest that each side was dominantly one or the other.
There's nothing to rebut. The point is he's only looking at his adversarial party's ills and totally ignoring his own party's ills, or full willing to justify them. That's how it works, that's the divide and conquer. No matter what his party does, he will never vote for the other party and vice versa. That's the main way the system protects itself.
One side violently took to the streets in multiples cities, destroying many small businesses, and causing significant civil unrest.
The other attempted to protect the citizens being attacked in those events and discourage further violence.
One may say that these events weren't strictly Dem vs Rep events, but current hostilities and ideas would suggest that each side was dominantly one or the other.