Who holds the blame for the events in Chicago?

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Trump basically incited a riot due both the location he chose this rally in, and his descsion to abruptly withdraw. He is clever enough to know what would have happened - it's all part of his plan.

Good on people willing to get out from behind their keyboards and actually protest this horror. Not surprised that our resident inbred Green Line is a angsting though.

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So the Europeanisation of American politics continues: we now have American antifa.

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Come on smilo, you know as well as I do that Trump knows how to play the media, and he knows how the media (including social media) will interpret his statements. It's perfect verbal choreography to divide and stir, while leaving enough distance to not be directly implicated in the consequences.

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The Hitler comparison in inflammatory and definitely unhelpful for the non Trump factions of the US in that Hitler's rise was built on the failures of the left and the outright collusion with the establishment right.

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Of course being divisive isn't the worst thing ever. The American right fetishises Thatcher, and she personally prided herself in her ability to divide people.

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And the protesters had a right to protest. Freedom of assembly.

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And the protesters had a right to protest. Freedom of assembly.

I applaud their right to protest, but not at the expense of a grandfather and his wife who travelled 150km from rural Illinois to be denied an opportunity to listen to their candidate in a Presidential election year.

That is an apalling outcome for democratic process.

Then these two were heckled to their car as "racist neo-nazis".

If that is your defintion of "freedom of assembly", it is all yours.

Sorry that their safe space was breached, I guess.