Anarchists In the NewsMay 5, 2017May 6, 2017

East Bay Times, “Peter Schrag: Berkeley and free speech lose as agitators dance”

Trump supporters are pepper sprayed during a clash with protesters at a "Patriots Day" free speech rally on April 15, 2017 in Berkeley, California. More than a dozen people were arrested after fistfights broke out at a park where supporters and opponents of President Trump had gathered. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

You have to feel for UC Berkeley. If it’s not the anarchist street mobs tormenting it like a dumb animal, it’s the opportunists on the right who know how to provoke the mobs. Together, they’ve perfected an agitators’ kabuki dance that couldn’t have been more perfectly scripted.