Civil disobedience isn’t violence; taking over a building via mass of bodies isn’t violence (though violence may be done to the protestors). Not that that’s what the Trumpanzees have as a goal here - they’re just trying to punish would-be asylum seekers and dehumanize immigrants. These people aren’t smart, they aren’t even thinking one step ahead, much less two. They were expecting the populace will go along with it, or at least not react too strongly. Or they weren’t really expecting anything - it was yet another act done to see how far they could push things, to normalize the unjustifiable.
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