Protest comes home, literally

The trouble with demonstrating outside of politicians' private homes.

“Horseshoe theory” posits that the farthest of the far left and right have more in common with each other than with the political center.

(comic via James Mellor)

Tankies, anarchists, Proud Boys and neo-fascists get very, very angry when you suggest this, which is why I make a point of suggesting it as often as possible.

A disturbing article in the Los Angeles Times explains how left- and right-wing agitators have have moved on from protesting in public places and near government buildings, and are adopting a common tactic: setting up shop at the private homes of elected politicians and even civil servants.

For government officials from Los Angeles to Seattle and beyond, 2020 was the year that political protests came home to roost.

Demonstrators repeatedly ditched traditional venues, such as government buildings and big commercial streets, to chant, fulminate and sit-in outside the front doors of officials including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti,Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, former