[beef]

I wonder if the bleeding hearts would be as sympathetic had he vandalized and torched an abortion clinic instead of a car dealership.

[Enchante]

"I wonder if the bleeding hearts would be as sympathetic had he vandalized and torched an abortion clinic instead of a car dealership."

No, then his UC profs would wash their hands of him forever, and all of the liberals would be denouncing his sentence as much too lenient. In this case, they can view him as just some misguided idealist, because they basically approve of what he stands for.