The worst thing about the Trump presidency is that its failure risks opening the door for the equal and opposite — but much more ruthless — populism of the left.

Niall Ferguson: The biggest threat to free speech? It’s the left. – The Boston Globe

Freedom is rarely killed off by people chanting “Down with Freedom!” It is killed off by people claiming that the greater good/the general will/the community/the proletariat requires “examination of the parameters” (or some such cant phrase) of individual liberty. If the criterion for censorship is that nobody’s feelings can be hurt, we are finished as a free society. (emphasis added)

‘So Boulder’, not to mention ‘So Berkeley’ (Milo Yiannopoulos – February), ‘So Middlebury’ College (Charles Murray – March), ‘So Claremont McKenna’ (Heather MacDonald – April) , ‘So Berkeley’ again (Ann Coulter – April), ‘So Evergreen State College’ (Professor Bret Weinstein who refused to leave for no whites allowed on campus day) and ‘So Oxford’ (zoologist Richard Dawkins silenced by a radio show in of all places Berkeley apparently due to some criticism of Islam).

No doubt there are many more as once again Berkeley shines by not being able to find space for conservative speaker Ben Shapiro. Although apparently they have now found a location and Berkeley wants Ben to come. Gotta LOL in their face on that one.