The question as dairy farmers “go out,” as we say, is “Where do the farmers go? What do they do now?” The answer is more than simply, “They get jobs in town.”

There is about a 50% chance that Donald Trump will win election again and, if he’s not tried before November, he’ll shut down the prosecutions of him. But the idea that a complicated case relying on novel use of federal statutes and involving a former president should, or could, be slammed through the courts like a case about an overdue parking ticket was always ridiculous.

This is not directly about the issues animating the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations at many colleges. Rather it’s about the air of privilege filling the sails of hypocrisy on which many ride.

Morality, good behavior and decency appear to be electives, not requirements, on too many of today’s university campuses whose “students” (and apparently not all are students) are now running the institutions of what might be called lower learning.

“Sleeping is a biological necessity. It’s sort of like breathing,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said during a hearing on the case. “You can say breathing is conduct, too, but presumably you would not think that it’s okay to criminalize breathing in public. And for a homeless person who has no place to go, sleeping in public is kind of like breathing in public.”

Major public works are important, no doubt. But what we gain shouldn’t obscure what we lose. The displaced communities — and people — aren’t just collateral damage.

Ukraine has certainly defeated Russia in the Battle of the Black Sea. Free Europe believes it can on land.

We don’t pretend here to have an answer for the homeless problem. Because the population is diverse, the answers must also be diverse. But one answer can’t be to strip away the public’s right to use the public spaces that ultimately belong to them.