MICHAEL GERSON - OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT NO LONGER CREDIBLE

Gerson titles his Washington Post article, "As radicalism creeps in, credibility retreats from OWS."  Gerson's  measured observations summarize well the state of things.   He writes:  (my bolding)

At what point does a protest movement become an excuse for camping? At what point is utopianism discredited by the seedy, dangerous, derelict fun fair it creates? At what point do the excesses of a movement become so prevalent that they can reasonably be called its essence? At what point do Democratic politicians need to repudiate a form of idealism that makes use of Molotov cocktails?