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In reply to the discussion: I'm sorry, but Trump rallies NEED to be disrupted - he is a fascist [View all]OneGrassRoot
(22,952 posts)and I specifically had the Seattle Bernie Sanders-BlackLivesMatter protest in mind.
I can envision Dem candidates giving the protesters x amount of time to say what they want to say, and then making it clear that, in order to get on with the candidates' message, they will need to be peacefully removed if they continue to disrupt. (I'm not saying the Seattle event played out that way...I'm saying that Bernie conceded the stage, something Trump hammers him over. I'm also not suggesting protesters are allowed to go onstage. I don't want to get bogged down in this analogy...lol)
That is a VASTLY different experience than what we're seeing at Trump rallies.
Remember that the protesters at Trump rallies started off being silent. Literally, silent. They would simply stand when he said something offensive. Then it progressed. I think the young man getting sucker punched last week in NC was the last straw. People realized that even when not being violent, they were going to be met with violence at Trump rallies.
And that is not an acceptable thing to allow in a democracy.