Tomi Lahren is not especially controversial. But these days, conservatives do not have to be out of the mainstream for their presence to set off a riot. Presenting the current state of liberal tolerance:

Lahren, also an Outkick host, is used to being confronted by angry liberal protestors who attempt to silence her conservative views, calling it “pretty routine stuff” she encounters frequently when speaking to college students. It was no different on Thursday when she was set to speak [to University of] New Mexico’s Turning Point USA chapter inside a large event space at the student union. She saw a few signs claiming she was a “White supremacist,” but thought the presence of campus police would deter any serious resistance.

Evidently blonde hair is enough to qualify a conservative woman as a white supremacist on campus nowadays.

Lahren was told the brownshirts would be kept out of the student union so that she could speak. That didn’t last:

“I start my speech and you can hear the chants and you can hear the screaming and the expletives. And again, nobody really thought anything of it. They’re just, you know, fired up. And I didn’t really think too much of it until they started pushing past the officers and banging on the doors so much that these double doors are visibly moving and shaking and they are smashing into the windows. And that’s when it became incredibly chaotic,” Lahren continued. “Everybody was worried that they were going to get inside. They were pushing officers in front of the doors and pushing them out of the way. I mean, attacking them. It started to get very ugly and very violent, very fast. Of course, we could only see through these little windows in the front the room we were in, so we couldn’t really see exactly what was going on out there.”

She had to cut short her speech and retreat with campus police officers to a back kitchen, where they barricaded themselves like settlers under assault by savages.

Albuquerque and New Mexico State Police took part in her evacuation via a loading dock. That’s the kind of country we live in, now that Black Lives Matter has established that leftist mobs do not have to obey the law.

Police then drove Lahren and her father around the city to make sure nobody was following them before dropping them back off at their hotel.

Meanwhile, moonbats took to social media to denounce the university for letting Lahren speak and to crow triumphantly about their victory over freedom of speech.

Liberal language alert:

Lahren drew the proper lesson from this appalling experience:

“This happening has actually inspired me to do more campuses, because we cannot allow them to intimidate us and back us into a corner, into the silence. That means they win. And I will never let that happen.”

We have come a long way from the campus free speech movement of the 1960s. Too bad we have been traveling in the wrong direction.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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