Anti-Trump riots and the world gone crazy … or not

When truly pressed to find some optimism in all the garbage of current events, I've sometimes fallen back to pointing out that there really isn't anything new. We've seen these pissant thugs before; they're part of the ebb and flow of history. It's not pleasant when they're surging, and it's especially irksome when the mainstream media and (more importantly) people with whom we disagree, philosophically, but whom we respect, can't muster a strong denunciation

When truly pressed to find some optimism in all the garbage of current events, I've sometimes fallen back to pointing out that there really isn't anything new. We've seen these pissant thugs before; they're part of the ebb and flow of history. It's not pleasant when they're surging, and it's especially irksome when the mainstream media and (more importantly) people with whom we disagree, philosophically, but whom we respect, can't muster a strong denunciation of those who would beat us senseless…