Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler:
Do you remember the “long hot summer” of 1967, when racial violence broke out in the inner cities all across the US? Then the following year there melees in the streets of Chicago when the Democratic Party held its national convention there. One more year brought waves of campus unrest, with student agitators shutting down classes to protest the war in Vietnam.
The sequence may be different, but a similar pattern is evident today. First there were the BLM riots—and Yes, they were riots, even if sympathetic reporters characterized them as “mostly peaceful.” Now the campus “protests,” which are actually attempts to shut down rational protest and debate by force and intimidation. And in August the Democrats will be meeting in Chicago again. Brace yourself. Continue reading here.
