Democrats, who now call themselves progressives, used to be known as liberals.  Whatever you called them, they always prided themselves on being tolerant and compassionate.  They preached then, and preach now, acceptance of those who are different than the norm.  Diversity, right?  They saw themselves as the defenders of the downtrodden, and the champions of the working man.  Liberals lived to set wrongs right. Robert F. Kennedy, for all his faults, was a classic liberal in this regard. Those with privilege should help the less fortunate.  His brother Ted summarized his principles succinctly when he eulogized RFK.  “He saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”  As crazy as this may sound, I submit to you that the principles Ted Kennedy voiced in 1968 more closely describe Donald Trump than any of the current leaders of the Left.  Think about it, Trump, a man of privilege, saw that the establishment had the government on the wrong track, and he ran to heal the suffering of the forgotten man at the hands of the elites.  Once elected, he was confronted with the threat of war in Asia, and has tried to stop it.  The Democrats were leaning far Left prior to Trump’s arrival on the scene, but lately, they’ve gone past the left-wing fringe elements, and are teetering on the edge.  Simply put, Trump is working their side of the street, and it’s driving them nuttier than they already were.  Trump has attracted the votes of blue-collar voters who formerly could be counted on to vote Democrat.  Trump has advocated strict enforcement of the immigration laws in very blunt, and sometimes unpleasant terms, and wasn’t swept away by angry Hispanic voters.  Indeed, nearly a third of Hispanics voted for Trump, whereas, Romney, who never insulted anyone, got only 27%.  Even worse, Trump has made inroads, modest inroads to be sure, with black voters, the bedrock of the Democrat electorate.  The Dems hate Trump almost as much as the establishment Republicans hate Trump (e.g., George Will), and they don’t know what to do with him.  They have no policies to run on, other than hate of Trump, which can take them just so far.  But back to the point of this exercise.  Liberals traditionally fought discrimination, and bashed conservatives for standing in the way of progress or turning back the clock.  Liberals were tolerant,  while conservatives were bigoted.  Liberals had love in their hearts for their fellow man, while conservatives exhibited prejudice.  But that stereotype has been reversed.  The great Bob Grant always said, “there’s nothing less liberal than a liberal.”  If he could see them now!  Progressives are imbued with superior knowledge, superior compassion, and are, well, superior to we mere mortals.  Their superiority permits them to advocate for all sorts of groups that are supposedly being discriminated against.  If females think they’re male, that’s OK.  If a boy wakes up singing “I Feel Pretty,” and decides to use your 8 year old daughter’s school bathroom, they’re good with that.  They will tolerate and welcome beings formerly found only in P.T. Barnum’s sideshow, and God help you if you find any of this in any way unusual.  The only diversity progressives won’t accept is an opinion diverse to their own.  They’ve proven this many times in relation to Donald Trump.  When he merely was Candidate Trump, and the progressive experts had declared him a joke who had no chance of winning, they couldn’t tolerate him.  These tolerant, compassionate, lovers of all things diverse, shut down highways to block people from attending his rallies.  They staged an all-out riot in Chicago because Trump dared to try to speak there.  One nut tried to pull him off the stage as he spoke at another rally.  They broke store windows and burned cars on inauguration day.  Another “tolerant” progressive shot five people at a Congressional baseball practice, because they were Republicans.  The Dems shift from one contrived issue to another seeking traction against Trump.  It was Russian collusion.  No good.  Obstruction of justice.  They proved the FBI guilty of it.  Stormy Daniels, who at last report was en route to the Mexican border to feed the children.  And now, it’s separation of children of illegal aliens from their criminal parents, an unfortunate happenstance which didn’t begin with Trump.  It wasn’t mentioned when Obama was President, but under Trump, has been denounced as “child abuse,” “un-American,” the same as Japanese internment, or Nazi death camps.  Commentators on MSNBC are crying (they must have seen the ratings).  The Left flipped a switch and the Crazy Machine went into operation.  Compassionate progressives have:  advocated the kidnapping of Donald Trump’s 4 year old grand-daughter; suggested that Barron Trump should be molested by pedophiles; threatened the lives of the President, and those of the children of a Florida Congressman; called ICE agents terrorists; and published directions for cutting out the hearts of Border Patrol agents.  Meanwhile, the media dutifully blames Trump for pictures of children taken during the 2014 immigration surge, as well as repeating out and out lies, out of compassion, you see.  By far the best example of progressive role reversal has been the protestors who hounded DHS Secretary Nielson out of a Mexican restaurant at which she dared to try to dine.  Sarah Huckabee then was thrown out of a Virginia restaurant because she works for Trump.  Maxine Waters called for more harassment, “No peace, no sleep.  No peace, no sleep.  They won’t be able to go to a restaurant, they won’t be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store.”  Consider that these are the same compassionate liberals who rightly protested that all people should be able to use public accommodations.  Maybe the Trump Cabinet should stage a sit in at the lunch counter of a D.C. Chipotle restaurant.  The bottom line is that they think they still personify the ideals of RFK.  They don’t.  Democrats see a law, and tell us we’re terrorists if we enforce it.  They see a Constitution, and they ignore it.  They see a political divide that seems ready to break out into open warfare, and they advocate violence.  Oh yes, progressives want to save America, but as they see it, in order to save it, they first must destroy it.