"The so-called free speech advocates who have no appreciation for freedom"
by digby
".... were allowed to assault and humiliate the symbols of law and order, the policemen on the campus"
I have often wondered whether "kids today™" really understand what our parents were like in the 1960s. I keep hearing from millenials who think the Greatest Generation were far more admirable than their miscreant baby boomer children turned out to be. And there's some truth in it --- the Greatest Generation fought a major war and grew up in the Great Depression so they had some very meaningful life experience in them at a very young age. Lord knows the baby boomers are pieces of work in a million different ways.
But this is a good example of how they were when it came to the cultural changes all around them:
That's right. Ronald Reagan was actually the Church Lady.
Thanks to Rick Perlstein for sending that clip my way ...