UCLA Opinion: Unengaged Students Face Cognitive Dissonance
February 16, 2026·9 days ago·via Daily Bruin

A Daily Bruin opinion piece calls out politically unengaged UCLA students for dodging the cognitive dissonance of their sheltered worldview. While campus radicals riot against Trump’s America First immigration crackdowns - injuring federal agents in downtown LA clashes - many Bruins tune out the chaos their leftist peers ignite. These walkouts, from middle schoolers to college kids at UCLA and USC, protest ICE enforcing laws that protect American sovereignty over open borders.
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