Liberal Hits Protestors for 'Mass Attempt' to Silence Trump

Liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who recently said Donald Trump has never suffered any "setbacks" despite losing a brother to alcoholism, is siding with the Republican presidential candidate on one controversy.

In his latest op-ed, Cohen called on anti-Trump protesters who have disrupted his rallies, in a way that has sometimes led to violence, to resist further attempts.

"[W]hile the protesters are entitled to make their case, so is Trump. If they have free speech, so does he," Cohen wrote. "A silent protest is one thing; a mass attempt to shout him down — in other words, to silence him — is something else entirely. The response is often violence — an attempt to shut up the shut-uppers. To Trump's constituency, there is something particularly galling about college students — seen as spoiled and the establishment-in-waiting — silencing the candidate whom they revere as their champion."

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