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Protesting Matt Walsh in Iowa

It Could Happen Here

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The Importance of Strategy in Response to Events Like This

Oliver: What were your big takeaways from this event? Oliver: Marbles are a great idea. But also what I think is worth taking from that is that it's not enough. The reason why the marbles were effective wasn't just that it made an exit inaccessible. It was in a situation where it rerouted people back through that screaming gauntlet of counter protesters which was demoralizing. A takeaway that I had was that there's always going to be risk with this type of thing, physical harm or emotional harm. These kids and a lot of these attendees went there expecting to own the lives and then walked away really demoralized.

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