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I’ll just say that today in Chicago,

we had a No Kings protest that brought out ~75K people, Puerto Rican Fest Parade (it actually lasts like a week 😂) and a sold out Sox Stadium for the pope’s address with no major incidents. I was also at the Women’s March in DC in 2017. A million marchers all entirely peaceful. It can absolutely be done correctly. As to whether these peaceful demonstrations move the needle, hard to say. I think the power of the Civil Rights movement was, (unfortunately) in the contrast witnessed by tv viewers of the passivity of protesters in the face of cruel and brutal beatings, being sprayed with fire hoses, etc. That turned the tide. Are we up for it? That’s the question.

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