It should go without saying that such disruptive protests are unmitigated evils. They channel the activists' displeasure with some public policy or state of affairs by inflicting unrelated harm on innocent passersby. These and likeminded protests explicitly aim to force their causes upon people in a totalizing fashion, such that ordinary Americans cannot travel to work, visit the pediatrician, enjoy a sporting event, or celebrate a religious holiday without caring about Gaza, or carbon emissions, or whatever is chic to rage about this week.
