When the College Republicans' president, a son of Syrian immigrants, began the meeting with the pledge of allegiance, mockery reigned. Many remained seated smirking at the flag and country that gave them their Pell grants and free condoms at the health center. The petulants interrupted Mr. Horowitz countless times with inane shouts of rote demagoguery. These are programmed automatons trained on a campus that knows only one ideology and indoctrinates its mentally frail charges accordingly. Had conservative students behaved the same at the conflicting, albeit unilateral, Horowitz event, they would be disciplined for hate speech.
Civil discourse is now but a soliloquy of one-sided views slathered with emotings.
Mr. Horowitz opted for written questions- a process that works because there is something about literacy that hones the thought processes. The Birkenstock crowd would have none of that. Their thoughts and conduct speak volumes about their training. They lack the ability to listen and analyze. As I lawyer I witnessed the first time questions were non-responsive.