On campuses across the country, students are standing up for Donald Trump

[Zorro]

Hunkered behind a MacBook decorated with stickers that read "This laptop was brought to you by capitalism" and "TRUMP 2016," Jake Lopez bounces T-shirt slogans off his friend Ian McIlvoy.

"Trumplicans," he says, nodding with satisfaction. "I think it'll take off."

Lopez is the California director of Students for Trump. Working from his dorm at Westmont College, he helps marshal the thousands of students who are pounding out phone calls, taping up fliers and blanketing Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat in an effort to persuade their peers that Donald Trump is the man.

Although vastly outnumbered nationwide by left-leaning classmates chanting "Feel the Bern," the youngest supporters of the GOP front-runner say they are similarly inspired by the hope of a radically different future and eager to support a leader who strikes them as anti-establishment and willing to speak his mind.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-trump-college-students-20160402-story.html

Doubt if one will find this bunch at the local Mensa meeting.

[Downwinder]

1. Think Hillary in 1964.

[romanic]

2. I feel like this is spite

due to the whole Emory Trump chalk incident.

[EL34x4]

3. Exactly. Many are supporting Trump because they're being told they can't.

The article says as much:

Young Trump followers say such backlash against minority opinion, in a realm where liberal culture dominates, is part of what draws them to the cause.

"Today, there is a movement to silence differing views," Lopez says. He argues that the increasingly common practice of students turning to "safe spaces" is really about sheltering students from ideas with which they disagree.

"That's not what America is about," he says. "Mr. Trump, he's single-handedly bringing back freedom of speech. He's enabled students to voice whatever we believe in a thoughtful way."

There's always going to be groups on college campuses that feel browbeaten by political correctness and liberal orthodoxy. Then they read that the "Trump '16" chalkings at Emory made grown adults cry and you'll get this entirely predictable backlash.

[dembotoz]

4. bigot parents can produce bigot kids acorn not falling far from oak

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Long before the laptop

And long before the desktop, government research in the UK and the US laid the groundwork for modern computers. But I guess that kid doesn't know about that.

I notice that they also make heavy use of the Internet in getting their message out.

[rufus dog]

6. Expensive private college in Santa Barbara

Some parents are going to be outraged! The kids should be backing the establishment candidate.