It was a deliberate provocation and the leftist thug got his reward delivered by a provoked black guy.

Would it also be "entirely appropriate" for a right wing guy to show up at a Sanders rally wearing a Joe Stalin mask and screaming that Sanders is a Commie?" Just asking.

He'd be in his perfect rights to. I'd wager he'd be laughed at rather than assaulted by a Trump goon. Therein lies a difference...

You can't call one person a thug with one breath, then praise a meathead for hitting them with the next.

Though this may have been deliberately provoking and certainly falling under the 'yelling fire in a crowded theater' provision of freedom of speech, nobody deserves to get hit for anything. We're surely a little more evolved than that aren't we? Even if it was actually a Trump supporter and not a 'leftist plant' as you think, celebrating this kind of a response is pretty classless whatever way you look at it.

That wouldn't be anywhere near as provoking as dressing up as a KKK member, so it's not in the same league. Also, how's he going to compete for attention with girls getting their tits out anyway?

Damn! That's what I've been missing about Sanders rallies and why they're so popular.

At a Trump rally, the only tit is the one on the podium ...

I'm sure that you'd freak out and squeal about "left-wing fascism" (sic) if a progressive in the crowd punched him.

But of course, when a Republican assaults someone, it's A-OK.

It would be hard to imagine TEA Party people mimicking the tactics of the Left. But if id did happen as you describe, I would understand it and not call it an action of left-wing totalitarian-wannabees. Maybe you'd like that term better, so I'll use it in the future.

But what are they going to do? Run around going 'Look at me, I'm trying to level the playing field for everyone and make certain organizations more accountable for their actions ...'?

It's much easier to caricature and lampoon a negative point of view than a positive one, and that's what today's GOP and particularly Trump is presenting. NOTE - I am not saying that one can't hold conservative or right-wing positions and not present them positively, but that simply isn't being done by the mainstream GOP during this campaign.

I also have a hard time believing that you support the tea party anyway, based on our conversations in other threads.

Er, the Tea Party is the one that is building a reputation for being in the assault-and-battery business.

Do you pay attention to the comments that you make?

Thanks for the heads up. You just killed any faint chance that I might go to one if he should come to Pennsylvania. You mean girls at his rallies don't do what the Sanders girls do? That is so disappointing. But maybe Sanders will come here, so there is hope. And no, I don't intend to show up in a Joe Stalin mask. Now if I showed up dressed as Che, or with Ortega-style sunglasses, or a Mao shirt, I might get surrounded by his girls doing their thing.

Now, remember this was just one particular meeting, tits are not guaranteed and any disappointment is entirely on the part of the attendee ...

If you want to kill yourself, but aren't quite ready yet and need to find the one thing that will push you over the edge to do it, go see Trump.

Interesting how the tactics of one protester has now morphed into "the tactics of the left"...

You obviously didn't attend last month's meeting, when all of us on The Leftâ„¢ voted unanimously to use this approach.

Yeah, I missed that too. I'm not sure if I was locked out, or just forgot about the meeting, my memory isn't clear. In any event, I'm not sure whether I'm a member in good standing of The Leftâ„¢.

I probably would have gone along with the vote, anyway, thinking it was the best way to stop Trump (my guy not being Trump); and besides, if any heads were broken it wouldn't have been mine, but earnest young - and expendable - members of The Leftâ„¢.