#Lefties attack MAGA marchers in DC — and the media shrug

If counter-protesters had triggered fighting across Washington, DC, in the wake of the January 2017 Women’s March, the media would have erupted in fury. Yet the morning after Antifa types went after MAGA marchers in the nation’s capital, the press obsessed about . . . Kayleigh McEnany’s estimate of the crowd size.

The difference, plainly, is that no one felt the need to confront the anti-Trump marchers. But a significant element of the left seized the opportunity to harass and even assault the pro-Trump crowd.

Ample video and photo evidence shows the extremists blaring “Get the f–k out” over bullhorns, tossing eggs and water bottles at the MAGAers, seizing and burning Trump hats and flags — and even throwing fireworks at Trump supporters just dining outdoors.

They physically attacked some Trump supporters, even beating one over the head with a flagpole and pummeling another to the ground. Police had to form barricades outside Capitol Hilton hotel to stop the goons from following the Trumpies taking refuge inside.

Why can’t the left just let people vent their feelings peacefully? Why the insistence on confronting them — on denying their right to even speak?

Sadly, this is what’s taught in America’s top universities these days — that speech that lefties dislike is itself violence, while violence directed against those speakers is somehow merely free expression. And that absurd logic increasingly is embraced by supposed moderates.

The thugs are encouraged by leading Democratic politicians who insist that reports of violence is “fake news,” and by media outlets that label left-wing riots “peaceful protests” — sometimes with a “mostly” tacked in front.

Liberal America will blame the MAGA marchers, and President Trump himself, for Saturday night’s violence. But it’s plainly the left that triggered the chaos — and will keep doing so even after Trump leaves the scene.

We fear that Democrats will keep enabling these thugs until the public sends a clear message, by rejecting not only the goons but also their apologists.