Ron HartView other columns by Ron Hart
Lefties have one go-to reaction to anything that does not fit their narrative: protest. They know if George Soros or any two-bit local malcontent can get 10 lay-about friends together, paint some signs and alert the media, they will get inordinate TV coverage. Apparently you don’t have to say what you are protesting or have a concise message. Just show up in perpetual outrage. As long as you are yelling about Trump, you will be captured on TV.
The problem these folks have now is that they march about everything Trump does. They will have no currency left in the bank when Trump inevitably does something really worth protesting. And he will.
Trump is fulfilling his clear campaign promise to tap the brakes of immigration from terrorist-prone states, much like Obama did. It’s not a move I favor, but he did promise it. So the left uses its other favorite move: clogging the court system to slow anything it doesn’t like.
They went left-coast judge shopping and found a sympathetic Washington State judge who wants to get some press to rule against the travel ban. He took the extraordinary step of slapping a temporary restraining order (TRO), based on dubious and speculative claims of “harm,” on the president. I think the last TRO against a president happened when Bill Clinton went into a bar on Ladies’ Night.
Now the TRO goes to San Francisco’s far-left Ninth Circus of Appeals. You might as well put it up for a vote at a Cher concert; the outcome will be the same.