Source: Persuasion
by Frank DiStefano
“Several times a year, there’s another burst of moral enthusiasm on some issue followed by disruptive protests. Shabbily dressed rowdies emerge, faces covered, to shout, obstruct, and intimidate. They block streets and entrances. They take over public spaces. They chant angry slogans and carry vulgar signs. They get in people’s faces. They pull offensive stunts like tossing soup at art. If passions get high enough, they set things on fire, loot, or outright riot. It isn’t just a problem of the progressive left, although it’s endemic there. There’s a right-coded version too, with tricorn hats in place of balaclavas. It’s a problem across America. I blame the Boomer generation that sold a deeply misleading history of civil rights in a case of generational stolen valor.” (07/07/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-left-is-misremembering-civil