Mobs

The left and the media are now objecting to the use of the term “mob” to describe left-wing demonstrators, as though this were somehow beyond the pale.

We must resist any and all such attempts to limit discussion. Suppressing words is suppressing truth.

Merriam-Webster: mob: “a large and disorderly crowd of people.”

Like a crowd banging on the doors of the Supreme Court Building. Like a crowd disrupting the Senate in session. Like a crowd chanting loudly to force a senator and his family out of a restaurant. Followed up by a warning online that right-wing legislators are no longer safe. By any standard, these are mobs and mob actions.

If large groups of people violating the law are not mobs, we are going to have to invent some new word. Storm troopers? Nazis? OK. And what shall we make “mob” mean now?