Political Punch After taking a beating at a Trump rally last year, protester Bryan Sanders reflects
Political Punch
After taking a beating at a Trump rally last year, protester Bryan Sanders
reflects on what The Donald's presidency means for America
Editor's Note: In May 2016, Bryan Sanders was protesting against Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump until security moved to hustle him out of
the Tucson Convention Center. As he was being led out, an audience member
stood up and began punching and kicking Sanders. Now that Trump is in the
White House, Sanders wrote an essay reflecting on his experience and
what it means for the country.
The first thing we must deal with is: the very public beating I took when
I was attacked by a Donald Trump supporter while protesting inside a
Trump campaign rally. To deal with the public beating I took, we must
first deal with the reason for the rally and the reason for all of the
special fuss: Donald J. Trump.
For as long as the Constitution and its First Amendment protection of free
speech remains law, feel free to say whatever you like about Donald Trump.
Whatever you say about him, he is certainly capable of causing quite a special
kind of fuss. Trump's special kind of fuss is a brand(ed) new national sensation.
To a certain type of Trump voter, there is literally nothing he can do wrong,
and the appropriate response to all of the #Russiagate hype and the things
that people say about Trump's lack of fitness for the job is: yawn, you lost,
get over it, snowflakes. To another group of a certain type of (currently
confused and terrified) American voter, it is already quite obvious that there
is simply no precedent for Trump's branded voodoo circus and the all-consuming
way in which it has absorbed the entire country into its ominous tornado of
information and invective and innuendo and investigation.
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