Limits of Liberal Protest

The liberal insistence on civility obscures the point of protest.

In the hours immediately following the news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ death, American liberals made a lot of threats about what they would do to prevent a third Trump appointee to the Supreme Court. The most threatening of such threats came from Reza Aslan, the Iranian American academic and former CNN host. “If they even try to replace RBG we burn the ent…