Questions that answer themselves:

Ann Althouse on a conflict between Madison’s unionista singers and a bunch of joes trying to earn a paycheck:

If you care about workers — and that is the subject of the songs they sing and sing and sing — why are they harassing these guys? If they care about justice, why do they instantly — based on a paranoid impulse — chant for a boycott? If they care about jobs, why would they want to denounce and injure a local business?

I think a lot of these protesters just enjoy feeling like the scrappy underdogs, but to be the scrappy underdogs you have to feel the pressure from above, and they haven’t been. They just walk around doing what they please, having their singalongs every day, chalking their slogans on the Capitol Square sidewalks. But on Friday, for one brief, shining moment, they had reason (however thin) to believe they were being suppressed, and they grabbed that tiny sliver of hope and held on tight.