Over at the Free Press, River Page has his morning news roundup for today. Below the fold, Page notes that protests are beginning to appear around the country. True, the Left spent considerable time recovering from November and has been trying to keep up with the flurry of activity from the White House. But it would appear that in some sectors, the progressives are getting their feet back under them and dusting off the old outrage.
Page notes:
After a month characterized by a notable dearth of protests, the crowds are beginning to show up. Students—like at Stanford this past week—are shouting down conservative speakers, and Democrats nationwide are seeing a surge in fundraising as they begin to launch legal battles against the administration. Overflow crowds have inundated Bernie Sanders’ rallies. His adviser said, “There is a lot more anger building, such that we are seeing in deep-red Republican-held districts that people are coming out.”
The Stanford Review reported that on Tuesday, ten-plus protesters shouted down and disrupted a debate between Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez and former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Lawrence Summers and took over the stage for around 20 minutes. On Wednesday, around 50 anti-Israel protesters took over a building at Barnard College in New York City. Their ire stemmed from the expulsion of two students for storming buildings at Columbia and handing out pamphlets laden with anti-Jewish propaganda. One employee was assaulted in yesterday’s collective tantrum.
Part of this is because the Left is finally over its shock, and it has things like USAID to use as red meat. And then there is the faction of people who continue to mouth the anti-Trump mantra, no matter the topic at hand. And the weather is getting better. Today’s generation is nowhere near as strong as their counterparts who lived through the Battle of the Bulge, stormed Omaha Beach, or went through the grueling process of island-hopping in the South Pacific. To put it in terms of historical warfare, it is campaigning season again. The weather will soon be nice enough to get out and break a few things in the name of justice.
Hellbound and Down 