with regards to the election, how much will developments in Minneapolis impact the result?
A lot of those protestors are gonna vote, and I can't imagine many of them voting for Trump. They're Ridin' With Biden, and everybody knows it. This is the implicit threat, isn't it? Vote Biden to restore order. If you don't do as we say, we'll make sure shit burns.
Now Minneapolis has a monstrous deficit and a huge cleanup bill. It'd take years to restore corporate trust and rebuild, but they don't have the funds alone to do any of that.
Are the Democrats in any way worried this monument to appeasement will carry the entire Rust Belt for Trump? What's to stop MAGA hat twitter from taking a tour through the still derelict wreckage of downtown in September/October, and Trump appropriating it for the campaign? Normally political campaigns have to go into speculative fiction to smear their opponents, but Biden supporters did all of this and didn't even have a way to spin it as all Trump's fault!
What do they do if Federal relief doesn't come? If it does Trump can spin it as being a Gracious God, but if MN state then tax their own, the vox pops are gonna be a bunch of incensed Quakers in the suburbs and in the countryside complaining that they're paying for the damages of looters, with 0 reassurance they'll not have to do it again in the future.