It seems to me that the mindset of the protesters who, when the leading
Republican presidential candidate cancelled his planned rally in Chicago out of
safety concerns, proclaimed “We stopped Trump!” is identical to that of the
fanatics whose intolerance of ideological opposition is dominating life at our
institutions of higher learning. The
purpose of the US Constitution’s guarantee of a right of peaceful assembly is to
give people the opportunity to express their opinions; modern demonstrators have
turned this purpose upside-down, transforming protest into a means of censoring
controversial speech!
(For my opinion on a similar subject, see
UC #234.)