Things are different now than wehn we were doing it. Thsi regime openly plants operatives to generate violence, especially if we won’t get violent ourselves. There is no way to avoid turning it into another January 6. That’s what the regime wants.
The last demonstration I went to was in 2015 or 2016 to support Trump when he was speaking at the hotel next to Grand Central Terminal. The other side was out in force.
That was the speech where he veered off politics and told the audience he was sure they were tired of that so he spoke about something completely different and charmed the crowd.
The cops had us next to the hotel and the opposition was across 42nd Street. Where we were we could see the whole episode when the other side dropped a huge cloth banner out of one of the upper windows of the hotel. Can’t remember what it said but the sentiment was anti-Trump. Cops were up there and pulled it back inside in what seemed like less than one minute. I think it might have been the Terrorism Task Force but I’m not sure. There were police from all five boroughs there that day.
One of the gentlemen from across the street came over to us and was about to swat me in the head when a very alert and angry cop pulled him back. That was not an FR rally although I think it was mentioned on the site. The leader of the group was an amateur and had vanished to a point far away from the hotel with some of his friends but some of us stayed where we were.
It was not the same as the old days, for sure. A new time had come.