Like the last two similar exhibitions of nationwide anti-Trump protests, the third in a series of coordinated “No Kings” protests against Donald Trump were characterized primarily by agitated but peaceful demonstrators engaging in unremarkable displays of political dissent.

For the most part, they were and remain largely banal expressions of Americans’ First Amendment rights. But from the beginning, the “No Kings” protests have also provided the latently violent with cover to indulge their most anti-social impulses. That tendency is becoming more pronounced. Worse, the non-violent who provide the violent with camouflage are either incapable of or uninterested in policing their own.

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