Source: New York Post
by Martin Gurri
“The theme chosen by the anti-Trump protesters who took to the streets on April 5 (‘Hands Off’) was considered vague even by sympathetic observers and gave rise to a number of interesting questions: ‘Which hands?’ and ‘Off what, or whom?’ … The protesting hordes, apparently, wanted to keep the government just the way it is. There is, I have observed, a peculiar variety of liberal conservatism that insists nothing must ever change — the ecology must remain untouched and the cities must remain undeveloped in this best of all possible worlds. Progressivism, once a revolutionary faith, has evolved into your elderly grandmother, confused by the bustle of modern life and afraid of the new. Government, from the progressive perspective, exists to freeze society and nature into a comfy stasis.” (04/22/25)