If mainstream liberals want to preserve their good brand, they must distance themselves from thugs who rioted Wednesday at the University of California, Berkeley, and other mobs oppressing civil rights to protest President Donald Trump.

Left-wing activists shut down a speech by Milo Yiannopolous, an openly gay British Jewish man who writes for the right-wing blog Breitbart. Yiannopolous, an avowed Trump supporter, has risen to fame by giving talks that explain how Democrats lost in 2017 by marginalizing working-class voters.

He spoke last month at the University of Colorado in Boulder and Colorado Springs, where law enforcement maintained the peace and ensured the show would go on. Berkeley was another matter.

Yiannopolous does not mince words. He jokingly refers to other gay people with a pejorative f-word, like a few black rappers abuse the n-word. He challenges political correctness by expressing himself in shock-talk, intertwined with political insights.

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