You’re surely right that a good portion of the Dem base approves of this kind of thing.
But I can’t believe that, say, Chuck Schumer is happy when he turns on the TV and sees more anti-conservative rioting on campus.
Whatever his personal views, he’s enough of a pragmatist to realize that it will hurt Dems at the ballot box.
You're giving Schmucky way too much credit for having a functioning heart and brain. He is an ideologue. I remember him when he was just a Congresscritter form NYC..................