SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY-Braving a windchill factor of 13 degrees hundreds of parents, some with their children, protested outside the Suffolk County government offices on Long Island on Jan. 26, in an attempt to reverse the state-issued mask mandate at their schools. The protest was organized by Long Island Loud Majority, a grassroots group founded in September 2020. “We truly believe that there are more patriots in the country than there are non-patriots, than there are folks radical left, pro-communism, pro-socialism, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom, anti-liberty,” Shawn Farash, one of the group’s founders, told The Epoch Times. Farash believes the radical left has been in a position to broadcast its agenda “unincumbered” and “unimpeded” for too long. “We have stepped in and as conservatives said, ′You know what? If we believe there’s more of us, if we are the majority, why must we be the silent majority?′” The protest comes on the heels …