This week, Education Secretary John B. King spoke at the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and urged college administrators to protect students from harassment and intimidation because so “many of our students [are] feeling vulnerable” after such a divisive election.

Inside Higher Ed summarized King’s remarks:

King said that all students, regardless of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation or gender identity, deserve to be treated with respect. Higher education leaders need to send "a clear message" that campuses will not tolerate harassment, that "diversity is a value" and that they will "respond aggressively to places where safety is violated," he said.

Though King said “all students” should be protected, it doesn’t appear he meant conservative students or students who voted for Donald Trump. Especially since he told his audience that "our democracy does not always produce leaders with the right judgment."As Instapundit noted, it’s pretty clear that King would’ve never made such statements if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency. Of course, that’s probably because conservative students would simply accept the loss and refrain from turning their campuses and cities into violent #NotMyPresident zones.

Another point of interest here is how the Obama administration is choosing who deserves protection and who doesn’t, and it’s very deliberate. From Instapundit:

Note that the government has now decided to come to the aid of certain people, even if nothing at all has happened to them. Now, the only requirement is that the protected class “feel” something. This feeling may even be entirely without cause. The important thing is that certain protected people must not be made to “feel” bad, no matter how irrational such a feeling is.

Of course, this protection does not extend to unprotected classes, such as Trump voters, who were too scared to tell people they were voting for Trump. No, they are an unprotected class.

The federal government has drawn a party line right down the middle of the protected class of the Left and the unprotected class of the Right and then lectures us all about how we must unite. That’s a little clue as to why the presidential election went the way it did.