Looks like the author of this boilerplate conservative complaint about "the angry and debilitating, empty-rhetoric of mob-style street politics" of the left, is the same Republican volunteer who dragged down and kicked a protester at the convention. As Julian Sanchez observes, being in the mob must make mob-style street politics less debilitating. Or maybe it's only a mob when it's non-violent. That's apparently what the police who arrested the protesters and left him alone thought.