Mob disruption is a uniquely reliable component of leftist protest.  It should not be mistaken for mere over-exuberance; it is the very point of the protest.  Aiming to divide and dismantle existing power structures and focusing on supposed “systemic” issues of broad injustice and power imbalances which no mere policy tweak can solve, the left-wing impulse is inherently revolutionary; its intent is to strategically destabilize.

Originally published in American Thinker