Let’s be blunt: whatever is happening in the streets today isn’t protest—it’s tantrum politics disguised as moral courage. The Founders didn’t risk their necks to create a nation where “free speech” meant shrieking into megaphones and blocking traffic with papier-mâché puppets of Karl Marx. The American right to protest was never about chaos for chaos’s sake. It was about reasoned dissent, grounded in principle, rooted in respect for law.