Cool Protestors from Black Lives Matter, Move on, Juan Escalante and other cool organizations:
1. Your important services to the Trump campaign:
Have you ever wondered why Donald Trump hasn't dealt with your cool protestors by discreetly instructing security guards to take you out without making much noise? It's not that during the Trump rallies the cameras are on you, that you have time to make your arguments or that you are handed a microphone so everybody can hear what you are trying to say, is it?
Then, why does Donald Trump makes your expulsion so noticeable? It's because he wants to. It's because you have become an important and useful part of his show. It's not a coincidence that a monster like Trump used immigration as the issue for his announcement or the way in which he did it. It's because, to fill the niche in the market he had seen, he needed to turn the most bigoted part of the electorate, that part that had distanced itself even from the Republican Party for considering it too liberal on immigration and that even thought that the Tea Party was not tough enough, into his base. If he wanted to deal with the Republican Party in his own terms (as the Tea Party did before him), he needed a base of his own, one that, different from the Tea Party, he didn't need to share with that other monster, Ted Cruz. Yet, that base was too toxic to take him to the White House. That's why he needed to move to another issue that extended the audience that could fall for his charms. Being a salesman, he can convincingly expand his number of sympathizers and become President (different from Cruz) but he could not do that running on immigration. And that's why as the primaries move to mostly Northern and Midwestern states he had to move to an issue that could excite the same kind of rage immigration awakens in his base and that issue, of course, is trade.
But then, if he could not elaborate daily on all the ways in which he intends to destroy immigrant and Muslim lives, something that keeps his base happy, because he now had to spend more time on trade, he had to found a way to mix both issues in his rallies without losing their short attention span. And that's when your services have come pretty handy. Expelling you, mocking you, looking tough roughing you gives him that chance to prove how tough he is going to be with Muslims and Mexicans. There has been no shortage of examples of this beside the insinuations of Isis affiliation of one of the protestors and the insinuation that one of them came from Mexico. Then a brief mention of the 'wall' is enough and he can continue with his tirades about trade.
More, he likes to portray the disgraceful time when two Black Lives Matter activists pushed Sanders away from his podium and decided to star in their new version of a Blackplotation movie, trying to impose their issue over the issue that has become Sanders's signature topic (income inequality) as Sanders Dukakis moment. At least twice he had found your services (your idiotic disruptions) useful to state that they would not do to him what they did to Sanders.
And if you believe that the adorable naivety (idiocy, really) of these people is not that bad, let me add another example. When one of these Trump's involuntary supporters was asked by a journalist what he had tried to say before being kicked out, he said that he had stated that Trump was a racist. So this idiot thought that making Trump's base (because nobody else could hear him from there) that Trump was a racist, they were going to abandon him in horror. His base, most of those in attendance, are there supporting Trump precisely because he is a racist!
But then you could say that if for some miracle's sake everybody could hear you, and that the moral power of could cool demeanor is all we need to convince them that Trump is a racist, he would lose the general elections even if he got the Republican nomination. And then I would have to regret again the fact that after all these years the liberal activism is dominated by those idiots who believe that all the masses are going for is a cool guy like him that they have to vote for their interest and because he is so cool, one guy is going to tell another “We have to vote for our interest!” and the other is going to answer “Yes, we must. I haven't seen it that way until now that I have heard that from that guy that is so cool.” And then these idiot imagines that the masses are going to rise him to his shoulders and march to the White House where, somehow, Jill Stein is going to be sworn President of the United States. And here you Cool Protestors provide a useful service because you make Trump look decisive and strong. And the American people usually prefer somebody who is wrong but strong over someone who looks weak according to common sense standards.
And then there are also those idiots who say that Trump is not that bad because he is not going to do what he says. In that case let me break a sad fact to you. Trump can't provide in their promises of unprecedented tax cuts and universal health care, of providing the unemployed the jobs held by illegal immigrants (5% of the population) and solve the unemployment and wage gap problems or the budgetary problems of American cities, located close to the border or not. And he knows the Republican establishment would be waiting, salivating, to get even with Trump and the people he wants to bring to government and position inside the Republican Party. So he needs a distraction and something to keep his base happy, always supporting him. And that's why he would need to hit over and over on his scapegoats, Mexicans and Muslims. Because at the end, do you think his base supports him because of his tax plan or his health care plan? They don't even care about that. All they want is the blood of Mexicans and Muslims that, in their twisted vision of religion, makes Jesus smile.
And I understand that you are providing Trump all those precious services for free. Different from the actors he hired to cheer him during the announcement of his candidacy, you are doing it for free.
2. What to do if you decide to grow up:
In order to gain to only the nomination but the presidency, Trump needs to appeal to the rest of the electorate and, for them, trade is a much more appealing issue. Yet, Sanders has been pulling Clinton to the left on this issue too, and, fortunately, Sanders is more appealing than her to younger constituencies that have to be complementary to Clinton's if she wants to beat Trump in the general elections. Yet there is something really useful on which you can help: showing that Trump is not to be trusted on his word. And to do that I would like to suggest three lines of actions that, definitely, are going to be more useful than your temper tantrums:
a) Some time ago David Cay Johnston posed 21 questions to Trump that have been mostly ignored by the press. You want to protest? Protest the press until they pose the questions to Trump in their so far soft-ball interviews; create online newspapers and seek press credentials to pose those questions to Trump; convoke press conferences in which you pose those questions.
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b) Recently Bloomberg published an article about how many of Trump's partners around the world waged after making business with him. Suggest the voter that voting for Trump makes of him kind of his partner in America and, if so, he should learn what his business partners think of him.
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c) Nothing speaks better in politics better than comedy, especially these days and especially in liberal politics. So take those videos to the malls and plazas where Trump shows more possibilities of electoral growth. And here I could make some suggestions:
From Bill Maher:
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From John Oliver:
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From Noah Trevor:
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From Stephen Colbert:
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Some time ago I propose an adaptation of the Argentinian Teachers' Tent (Carpa Docente). This would be a good way of putting that idea to use.
This, of course, is not going to affect Trump's base but it may make quite a dent in the extended electorate to which Trump needs to appeal to be President.
UPDATE (3/26/16)
Probably you will think it better if you hear it from Trevor Noah: