The Psychology of Effective Protest

Nearly every faction that opposes Trump seems to have organized its own protest in recent months. The women have already marched, and now they’re doubling down with a day without women. (They’ve taken a page from immigrants, whom we also went a day without.) Soon, many scientists will march, as will some taxpayers who want to make sure Trump is one, too.

Most of these protests have been peaceful, but the protest against a planned speech by former journalist Milo Yiannopoulous at the University of California, Berkeley, earlier this month showed that left-wing groups. The protesters “threw smoke bombs, knocked down barriers, set fires and started fights in the south campus area,” as reported, prompting President Trump Berkeley’s “FEDERAL FUNDS.”