WHAT’S AMAZING IS HOW MANY ALLEGEDLY-“RESPECTABLE” JOURNALISTS ARE EGGING IT ON: Byron York: Anti-Trump fever takes threatening turn.

The toxicity of the resistance to President Trump has risen in recent days, with the nation’s most respected newspapers publishing rationalizations for denying Trump supporters public accommodation and for doxxing career federal employees, while a journalist found himself under physical attack from the so-called anti-fascist group Antifa, which has stepped up its violent activities since Trump’s election. . . .

The president is not always at the center of such demonstrations, but Antifa has become an angry and violent fringe force in the Resistance. It has played an ugly role in a number of events, most notably Charlottesville, in which feelings about Trump have played a role.

Shunning, shaming, doxxing, attacking. As the 2020 campaign reaches full speed, would it surprise anyone to see all of it increase? And all from people who congratulate themselves for standing against hate. Perhaps our politics will cool down at some point in the future. But not now.

All of this stuff helps Trump, of course, and if these people were smarter they’d know that and behave better. But they can’t help themselves.

Related: It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders. “Of all 15 verified national-level journalists in our subset, we couldn’t find a single article, by any of them, that was markedly critical of Antifa in any way. In all cases, their work in this area consisted primarily of downplaying Antifa violence while advancing Antifa talking points, and in some cases quoting Antifa extremists as if they were impartial experts.” Just remember, turnabout is fair play, and in the words of our last president, don’t think people aren’t keeping score, brother.

Flashback: Democrats Join Alt-Left Protesters Who Want to Ban Conservative Websites.

AN OBAMA APPOINTEE: Federal judge blocks Trump from using $2.5B in military funds for border wall.

THE DEMOCRATS HAD A CHOICE: THEY COULD MAKE TRUMP LOOK CRAZY BY CONTRAST, OR THEY COULD MAKE HIM LOOK SANE. They chose to make him look sane. “‘Return to normalcy’ was a winning campaign slogan in 1920, which Joe Biden ought to remember since that’s the year he was first elected to the Senate. Biden seemed like a plausible Return to Normalcy candidate as of, say, 8:59 Thursday night. Not anymore.”

ARTHUR CHENKOFF: As one of those Ellis Island families, dear Alexandria…

My great-grandfather had waked down the ship’s plank at Ellis Island sometime around 1908, seeking a fresh start after apparently having squandered his inheritance in his home town of Stanislawow in what was then the Austrian Galicia but what used to be eastern Poland and what is now western Ukraine. The surname Chrenkoff is in fact the kind contribution by the US immigration authorities to my family history, so much so that we don’t unfortunately know anymore what the original Polish-Ukrainian spelling might have been (Hrynkow? if you have any ideas let me know and you’ll win Internet for a day). The great-grandfather then ended up in Chicago, as so many other Poles around that time did, met and married my great-grandmother, fathered my grandfather and managed to die in shady circumstance (as many others in Chicago around that time did – and still, unfortunately, do), all in a space of four or so years. My great-grandmother either felt scared or lonely or homesick or all of the above and returned with my 2-year old grandfather back to Poland (which still wasn’t Poland yet until a few years later, in 1918). That’s how I came to be eventually born in Poland with an American-spelled surname, which continues to provide the endless amusement to everyone trying to spell and/or pronounce it. But then again so would have the original name, so no hard feeling the 1900s-era ICE.

The point about it all, however, is this: everyone, including my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother, who had ever arrived at Ellis Island did so legally. They all followed the immigration laws of the land and presented themselves to American immigration authorities for screening. The millions who did so over the decades have come for a variety of reasons – some might have indeed been “escaping some horror”, but an overwhelming majority were coming to the United States simply to find work, opportunities and a better life. In a sense the horror many of them were escaping, if it can be called that, was the deep rural and urban poverty of Ireland, southern Italy, the Austro-Hungary and the Russian empire with their backward economies and lack of social mobility (often accompanied by a dose of religious, ethnic or political persecution). Coincidentally, none of them “snuck onto a boat”; they all saved and paid or had relatives and friends (often already in America) pay for their ticket. Of the 12 million people who passed through Ellis Island, about 20 per cent were temporarily detained, mostly for health or legal reasons, but in the end only 2 per cent were denied entry and packed on ships back to Europe. From the selection point of view, the immigration policy might have been more liberal then – the economy, after all, needed plenty of able bodies – but it was all conducted in accordance with the laws of the day.

Read the whole thing.

BILL GERTZ: China Confirms Submarine-Launched Missile Test. “American defense officials disputed the Chinese claim that the test was not targeted at any country and said the missile firing on June 2 coincided with the visit to Asia by then-acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan.”

I won’t give much thought to China’s sub-based nukes until they figure out how to make quieter subs.

THOUGHTS ON THE EUROPEAN UNION’S FUTURE, OR LACK THEREOF: “It’s unlikely that the EU will become more democratic anytime soon, or start to respect democratic processes within its member states… Its aims now are completely otherwise, and a lack of responsiveness is inbuilt to its structures and institutions.”

KRUISER: Cory Booker’s New Focus: Hammer Biden on Race.

TO BE FAIR, DEMOCRATS HAVE TRADITIONALLY FAVORED A “RACIAL REPUBLIC.” Joel Kotkin: Democrats, Reparations, and the Racial Republic.

The racial Republic is losing ground with the masses of Americans. Today roughly 86 percent, according to one recent survey, of adult Americans do not believe European roots are necessary to be “truly American.” Two in three said they felt optimistic about breaching racial divides.

One used to hear the harshest racial rhetoric from society’s bottom rungs. Now one hears it from academic and political elites.