Robert Reich, labor secretary in the Clinton administration and now chancellor’s professor of public policy and government at the University of California, Berkeley, has an article in Newsweek about the violent shutdown of a scheduled speech at Berkeley by the provocative gay conservative and sometime Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. As Reich notes, 150 “masked agitators” threw rocks and fireworks at police, smashed windows and threw Molotov cocktails that started fires. This violence resulted in no more than one arrest but, Reich notes, delivered “made-for-TV images of a riot.”

The incident and attendant publicity, Reich writes, “raises the possibility that Yiannopoulos and Brietbart [sic] were in cahoots with the agitators, in order to lay the groundwork for a Trump crackdown on universities and their federal funding.” In the article, Reich repeats his statement on CNN that he “wouldn’t bet against” this.