Louis Armstrong sang “When you’re smilin’… keep on smilin’ / the whole world smiles with you.”

Only that’s not so true if you are a Catholic, pro-life, conservative, teenaged boy waiting for your bus ride home. A bunch of weirdoes can shout racist, homophobic, anti-Christian crap at you, then Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist and Omaha “elder,” can pound a drum in your face. If you stand still and do nothing but smile, you are Adolf Hitler, Jr. That happened to Nick Sandmann, a junior at Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School. Let’s take a short look at a tiny portion of the abuse that was hurled at him.

Sandmann’s smile was a “smirk” according to nearly every Leftie goblin on Earth. It and the MAGA hat on his head were conclusive proof that he was a racist and should, therefore, be beaten and have his life ruined. Ben Hoffman, a purported comic who uses the stage name Wheeler Walker, Jr, tweeted, “If you know this little s***, punch him in the nuts and send me the video of it and I’ll send you all my albums on vinyl, autographed.” When reporter Jack Posobiec tweeted that Hoffman should delete the reprehensible offer, the comic fired back, “F-ck you. I’ll delete your f-cking ass you piece of sh-t.” Sarah Beattie, a Saturday Night Live writer who likes to boast of her breast size, tweeted, “I will blow whoever manages to punch that maga kid in the face.” Michael Buchanan, a Detroit-born hip hop producer and DJ who uses the name “House Shoes,” called for the shooting of anyone in a MAGA hat: “If you are a true fan of Shoes I want you to fire on any of these red hat bitches when you see them.” Jack Morrissey, a filmmaker for Disney, was more brutal. He tweeted Sandmann and any other kid wearing a MAGA hat should be shoved screaming head first into a woodchipper. He provided an illustration of the process. Perhaps his woodchipper can set up by the statue of Walt and Mickey in Disneyland, the happiest place on Earth for those who like to see kids with the wrong political opinions ground to bloody bits. Lesser goblins posted Sandmann’s address so he and his family could be terrorized. Not satisfied with targeting just them, the goblins threatened to shoot up or burn down Covington Catholic High with its students inside.

Sandmann and the other Covington kids might have expected some support from their school and their church, but no. The Diocese of Covington and the Covington Catholic High School condemned the kids’ reported behavior, apologized to Phillips, and announced they would punish the miscreants. This could include expulsion. Other Catholic leaders and clergy joined in without soliciting the students’ side of the story. It was days before they retracted their remarks.

Some conservative voices joined with the Church and the goblins. The most egregious attack from the Right came from Nicholas Frankovich, a deputy managing editor of National Review. He posted an article, titled “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross,” on National Review’s The Corner. In it, while not advocating the punching of anyone, he joined the lynch mob hounding the Covington students and gave their hatred a religious context. He actually wrote: “They [the students] mock a serious, frail-looking