Protests in Los Angeles

I met a woman the other day who expressed her hope that the protests against Trump’s sociopathic criminality would not become violent.   At first I thought she was kidding, but I soon realized that she was simply a Trump supporter who believed that anyone protesting against the president must be a lunatic, capable of great harm.

I tried to reassure her, making it seem that I was taking her seriously: “I’ve been associated with protestors from the days of Nixon and Vietnam to the rights of women, black lives, the use of science in policy-making, climate change mitigation, all the way up to Donald Trump.  These are the most peace-loving people imaginable.”