text: You know, I wanted to read this column because I too believe that our important policy discussions are fueled far more by anger than by reason.
  
  But then it got right back into the old "false equivalency" game. Yeah, a few people in a couple of places have gone too far. But to paint the entire anti-Trump protests with the broad brush of the worst actions of a few is like equating the Watts Riot with the Edmund Pettis Bridge, then clucking, "See? Both sides are wrong."
  
  Also, if you think that even the worst of what has happened so far has been a "riot", then you don't know what a riot really is.
  
  As far as taking to the streets and standing up for what you believe in? Sounds pretty doggone American to me.