Hi everyone,
Turning Point USA's final stop of their campus tour was at the University of California, Berkeley and Antifa staged an attack. A fight broke out between a Trump supporter and a member of Antifa.
Antifa agitators rushed the barricades around the event, they chanted "fascists out of Berkeley," and four arrests were made on campus by police. Antifa agitators also set off a flare. "Any time, any place, punch a fascist in the face," they chanted.
Protesters also mocked Charlie Kirk's death, chanting "f*ck your dead homie." Activists papered the iconic Sather Gate with flyers railing against Kirk and "hate." The two arrested for that act were both women in their early 20s.
Accounts shared on social media say that protesters screamed, threw paint and glass bottles at attendees. They say that there was an active attempt to intimidate the organizers into shuttering the event and getting audience members to leave.
For the past 10 years, conservatives have stayed peaceful. There was one riot on January 6, and there was one protest during Covid at Lansing, Mich. capitol building. But leftists persist in organizing street violence and sustained intimidation tactics.
They've been able to get people fired, separate families over ideologies, and stop people from speaking. And they do it all while claiming they are the good guys, while demanding that their opponents are the ones who use violence.
It is beyond Orwellian to hear that abortion is hate, that violence is people, that intimidation is democracy, and censorship is not free speech. None of it makes any sense.
Yet all the while, conservatives and reasonable people have this idea that somehow we're still on an even playing field, that there's time for in-fighting, that there must be purity of ideology and mission.
I had this thought recently, that when you wonder why good people did nothing in societies on the verge of disaster, it turns out good people likely screamed their bloody heads off and the disaster came anyway.
Libby