Ominous Overtones in Growing Thailand Protest

Hundreds of thousands of protesters dare a brutal crackdown

After six years of frustration over lackluster, deeply corrupt military government following a 2014 coup, capped by growing disenchantment with a profligate and erratic king who has chosen to make his home in Germany rather than Bangkok, the royalist fervor that paved the way for authoritarian government appears to have waned.

Student protests that have …