

The western states have the sterilization of protest down to a science, granting permits along preestablished routes and promoting liberal reformist types as the “real” leaders as well as using other civilians as disruptors instead of going in with the cops as a first recourse.
Banning protests and going for naked repression is pretty much exactly how you get protestors gravitating toward organizations that aren’t permit fetishists with NGOs.

Yes it has lmao. Trump and his imitators are just too stupid to understand that protest is largely illegal already unless it is rendered sterile through the “proper channels”.
What do you think Kent State was? What do you think happened to Anti War protestors during the Iraq invasion? Were cops just singing songs and drinking Pepsi during the Ferguson protest or did they murder all the organizers? What did the DHS do to the Occupy Wall Street organizers?
This is how it’s been, it’s just that more people are restless now and they’re deciding to do away with subtlety.