what do we think would have happened if donnie and the right wing had basically done nothing

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4. mixing hypotheticals

i'm imagining a world where we had some peaceful protests, then we *didn't* get bombarded with news of right-wing agitation, police abusing force, donnie bringing in the military, etc.

just some protests for a few days, then basically ignored. you know, like pretty much every other time. we protest and nothing happens and everyone moves on with their lives.


it's mixing scenarios up to look at a few places where the cities ignored the protests and yet they still got bombarded with all this crazy news, even if it was coming from other cities.

besides, i don't think any city really ignored it like i'm imagining. a democratic mayor might have tried to be peaceful, but that doesn't mean the police for handled it well. nyc, for example, there are plenty of videos of nyc police abusing force the last few days, no matter what the mayor may be saying or doing.