Reminds me of when I was a kid in 1948 NYC and my dad and I watched the Communist May Day Parade. They were chanting "2 - 4 - 6 - 8 Henry Wallace in '48". At the end of the parade, a large group of longshoreman charged the group, shouting "2 - 4- 6 - 8 - Henry Wallace suffocate" and began beating the crap out of the marchers. Mounted police came in and used their horses to force the whole lot into a group, then the foot cops came in with nightstick pumping back and forth like battering rams, gut-punching the crowd into smaller, more manageable groups who were then hauled off in Paddy Wagons.
When America was still America.