This week’s opinion marketplace

A wave of unrest, which began unfurling last fall, washed across the country Wednesday, to the discernible notice of observers in the White House, where a lockdown was ordered, and the noticeable chagrin of the president’s compadres in Congress and his acolytes elsewhere.

It rained on the Richmond Tax Day Tea Party, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of several thousand chanting, sign-waving Virginians.