They can protest all they want, that's free speech. And the issues are generally relavant / valid. But they have no right legally or otherwise to be commiting acts of physical violence upon other humans or causing damage to others property. Doing that, and generally acting like assholes, will and has got them delegitimized by the people they're protesting against. Now it's mostly just warm fuzzies for themselves, their backers and their moderates. Many of these 'liberal' protests in their blue dominated city limits perhaps didn't vote and don't seem to be protest in red regions. And both Clinton or Obama haven't said anything to stop it. Bottom line, whatever their causes of the day are, they had four years to work them into a vote. And ever since the primaries to wage against any candidate too. Vote happened, and as it appear nothing about the vote / process has made it to any court lawsuit to date, they seem to have lost fair and square. 290 to 228 of the book, and only lead 0.49% of popular cast between them. You can't always get what you want. The presidency is one person take all, they know that. Did they invest their half in Congress, apparently not either. Another thing seems clear, both before and after election it wasn't the right being mass violent and disrespecting the law and the vote. Nor is it likely right would have if the right lost. Last, US has been moving progressivly forward on its own for decades, that's not changing, nor is punching people out and damaging shit likely to speed it up, at all. It would be different if left were a desperate 20% minority last ditch with no other options but death. The situation sucks, but there are likely other options all around. And they might already being adopted.. # Billionaire Soros linked to anti-Trump protests - WikiLeaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14zszKEKz-I