Abbie Hoffman was a Disaster for the Left

Aaron Sorkin portrays Abbie Hoffman as someone we can learn from. The problem is that we’ve already learned too much from him.

So much of the Left’s response to The Trial of the Chicago 7 has had to do with the fact that it was made by Aaron Sorkin, whose general critique as a liberal ideologue—empty calories to be sure, but too satisfying to resist—is a favorite leftist pastime. The main criticism in this case is that Sorkin makes the bad guys too good and the good guys too “g…