Incivility

Ross Douthat wisely deconstructs the latest form of Trump protest.

Thus in the civil rights era, the sites of protest — lunch counters, city buses — were carefully chosen to make segregation look at once evil and ridiculous, and the protests were calibrated to make it plain that the police officers and vigilantes enforcing the institution were the bad guys. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was no plaster saint of civility or centrism, and he was often willing to earn a reputation as a disturber of the peace. But he still chose his disturbances strategically, which is why the images on American television screens featured Southern Christian Leadership Conference activists sitting peacefully in lunch counters or facing down attack dogs — rather than, say, turning Lurleen Wallace out of her favorite restaurant.

See...the Civil Rights protestors, in addition to being morally correct, were also very smart and very clever.

With the anti-Trump progressive folks, even if they are - as they insist - "on the right side of history" - they are awfully dumb at showing it. They've got one move and one move only: obstruct, vilify, try and take down. In case they haven't figured it out yet, it's dividing the hell out of the country and empowering Trump himself. The smarter liberals think this is a function of bad tactics. I disagree. I think it's a vacuity of ideas and reflective of there being "no there there." Liberals abandoned patriotism, working class issues, pragmatism, a shared belief in individual liberty in exchange for "diversity," "tolerance," and social justice. The only possible result for Liberals choosing this path is failure or tyranny, neither of which I see as desirable.