Specific tactics may change, but the playbook is always the same.  All over the world, "color revolutions" have featured graffiti, vandalism, arson, rioting, looting and violent clashes will law enforcement officers.  The goal of the rioters is to pressure authorities into giving them what they want so that the chaos will stop.  And "color revolutions" always feature a highly visible set of colors that are deeply meaningful to the people that are being encouraged to protest.  In this case, the Mexican flag has been specifically chosen to be the primary symbol of the "color revolution" that has erupted in Los Angeles.  The following comes from the New York Times…

As images of protests in Southern California have flooded television and social media in recent days, a key question has emerged: Why are so many protesters carrying Mexican flags at an American political protest?

That is a very good question.

We have been bombarded by images of Mexican flags in recent days.

In fact, the rioters that were standing on top of the burning Waymo taxis were literally waving Mexican flags…

Photos of masked provocateurs waving Mexican flags atop burning Waymo taxis spread instantly across conservative social media this weekend. Republicans pointed to them as a prime example of why President Trump called in the National Guard and how immigration had gone too far in California.

"Look at all the foreign flags," Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff and the architect of Mr. Trump's domestic agenda, said Sunday on X. "Los Angeles is occupied territory."

The mindless rioters in the streets probably have no idea that they are following the "color revolution" playbook very precisely.

The colors of the Mexican flag are being inextricably linked with this "color revolution", and the goal is to intimidate the other side so that they will agree to back down…

The idea behind this color revolution – it is organized and planned, not spontaneous or genuine – is to intimidate normal people into submitting and embracing the politicians associated with its goals in the hopes that it will stop. This is the work of the Democrat Party; the rioters are its useful idiots, acting to support the party's goals while its maintaining deniability. But this scheme only succeeds if the target is feckless and weak, which such targets usually are.