Sam Tanenhaus, Columnist

What the Anti-Trump Movement Can Learn From the 1960s

Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. -- and from the conservative Young Americans for Freedom.

February 10, 2017 at 4:33 PM UTC

Sam Tanenhaus, the author of “The Death of Conservatism” and “Whittaker Chambers,” is working on a biography of William F. Buckley Jr. He was editor of the New York Times Book Review from 2004 to 2013.

And then what?
Photographer: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images

Provide news feedback or report an error

Site feedback:

Take our Survey

This article is for subscribers only.

Political theater, democracy "in the streets" -- it's supposed to feel like the 1960s again.

The high so far was likely the impassioned but mostly orderly march in Washington the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. Drawing a half-million people, it included a broad range of participants. The low came not quite two weeks later, when 100 or so masked militants disrupted an appearance by the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California at Berkeley, forcing administrators to lock down the campus.