[grania]

I watched some of the videos. What are the anti-Trump forces thinking? The message is that people have to take it in their own hands to fight the forces that oppose them. Won't the images of Trump supporters standing up to BLM and other protestors gain him support?

How does that message translate to the convention environment?

[tbw2]

The Rutgers University Milo Yianopolis visit recently comes to mind. The social justice warriors show up, and in the name of fighting hate, try to shout down the speaker and the group that organized him. Chanting black lives matter, then air horns, etc.

The audience in this case didn’t take it sitting down. The first calls were if they didn’t want to listen, leave. Others shouted names back. The liberals whipped out air horns and started smearing paint on their faces.

Someone started chanting, “Trump, Trump, Trump!” Others joined in, and in a couple beats, the crowd’s voice in unison overwhelmed the protestors.

It was a visceral, “This is our space, we control this, you’re not wanted.” And while liberals were scattered around the room per Alinsky tactics to seem like they were everywhere, it was obvious they didn’t control the space.

They threw some more paint, waltzed around the room and left.

By unifying behind one symbol, the crowd one, and the speech then continued.

People don’t like being called names and interrupted in public for holding conservative opinions - and the left thinks it has the right to do the same in private, too.
Too often, the speakers don’t stand up to confront it, just try to wait it out. Or campus leaders let the protestors run wild, saying their freedom of speech trumps the speaker and audience.
Even Milo Yianopolis has had events canceled from threats of violence, liberal school administrators citing security concerns - though it is giving liberals the ability to silence anyone through a death threat, and with that, freedom of speech and assembly dies. More catty rules have been that if the conservative speaks, there must be a liberal counterbalance, though that isn’t a requirement for liberal speakers.
In this case, the conservatives won, chanting Trump’s name.

That’s a pretty powerful symbol.

But if Trump’s supporters do get violent, it is only after years of conservatives having liberals shout them down in public, hate mob them online, name call them haters and sexists for expressing opposing views in private, infiltrating events to disrupt them, trying to shut down groups that won’t give in ...