The party of peace and love beats the crap out of its opponents

Apparently public school administrators think it is perfectly okay for high-school students to cut classes to march on school grounds to object to the country holding a fair and free election.

And as we have seen time and time again, supporters of the party of peace and love turn violent when they see an Other.

Hundreds of students from Richard Montgomery High School were carrying signs reading, “Love Trumps Hate,” and chanting near the Rockville courthouse on Maryland Avenue in a protest that began at about 10 a.m. when a 15-year-old boy wearing one of the Trump campaign’s “Make American Great Again” hats was attacked by about four students.

The group surrounded the teen, punching him repeatedly, then threw him to the ground and kicked him repeatedly in the ribs. It is not yet clear what led up to the incident.

“They jumped him and beat him up pretty bad,” Max Stucky, a bystander who witnessed the attack, told WTOP.

Such physical assaults are hardly rare. Meanwhile, rioting continues by people who also do think that American should have free and fair elections. And also meanwhile, defeated candidate Hillary Clinton and serving President Barack Obama have both steadfastly refused to denounce the violence.

Slate's chief political correspondent writes that "There’s No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter," which rhetorically isn't far from "the only good Trump voter is a dead one." But that seems already to be an operating standard: In New York City Saturday, a man was shot to death on the street after he joked about voting for Trump.

Folks, we may well be on the verge of a low-intensity civil war for the next four years. In 2011, a former London police chief warned about we are seeing because Britain was seeing plenty of it already.

If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame. ...

They are essentially wild beasts. ... They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others. ...

A former London police chief spoke a few years ago about the ‘feral children’ on his patch — another way of describing the same reality. ...

The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist.

So as a little bit of comic relief - and who couldn't use that? - here is Reason wondering just what everyone is so upset about. After all, if Trump does all the terrible things the Left says he will, won't that make him just like someone else they know?