The Democratic Convention isn’t over yet but so far it really looks as if the wild protests we were all promised are not going to happen. There was a big protest on Monday but instead of being “mostly peaceful” this one was actually peaceful. There were some big creepy puppets and intemperate slogans but no seemed eager to smash the fash. But the real surprise was how few people turned out. Here’s how the AP reported it.
More protests were planned throughout the week. However, attendance at the main rally on Monday was far below estimates of organizers who had predicted more than 20,000 would show up.
Snelling said Monday’s crowd was around 3,500 people and that the vast majority of those protesters were peaceful.
Yesterday, we finally got a real progressive protest from the group Behind Enemy Lines. Their protest was called “Make it Great Like ’68” and they were encouraging…
