> For better or worse, the US political left has self-labeled as "liberal", and dresses up and cosplays in the image of an educated, erudite elite. To have memb

> For better or worse, the US political left has self-labeled as "liberal", and dresses up and cosplays in the image of an educated, erudite elite. To have members of that tribe resort to violence to suppress speech -- to celebrate that violence -- is a wholesale rejection of the fundamental tenets of the identity itself. Indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqrG9N-cmds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqrG9N-cmds originally aired in late 2005 (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_West_Wing_episodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_West_Wing_episodes). Ever since about 2011 or 2012, I have been wondering what on earth happened. Of course, Santos says nothing about freedom of speech in this scene. But he speaks of expanding rights for everyone, not threatening people for exercising them.