If the entire point of holding a political rally is to build support for your cause. Showing up armed so you can smoke a violent commie in self-defense is counter-productive. It is bad optics for your cause.
The correct move is to sue the fuck out of the city for violating your civil rights for not providing proper security and letting the commies try to break up your shit. Well organized rallies have that taken care of. They sent their lawyers to city hall beforehand and make it perfectly clear how many scalps they are going to take if anyone so much as said boo to their people during the event. As a result, things are well controlled. Well, most of the time.
Patriot Prayer, Proud Boys, and the other tards don't do that. Hence why they are always shitshows with terrible optics.
Yet again, I partially agree, friendo, but where I emphatically distance myself is where you say 'well, most of the time.' - that's the thing, this is an evolving situation and while it may evolve slowly and in various stages, it's an evolving situation that's shifted the overton window of our countries' politics far beyond the point of 'well it'll just magically fix itself' and due to the reality of that, the likelihood that shit can go wrong at even the most well-managed rally becomes more and more likely.
If one hasn't noticed, they've shifted away from riots, and into organized large-scale marches, with armed security 95% of the time - does that security fucking suck? Well, yeah, but it's not always gonna fucking suck, the merit of experience means something lol; these funny ass clowns will get more and more violent, and smarter about it (not dumber), and in their case when they have the institutional support they do, mollywhopping a Conservative in the brain with a steelcasing doesn't seem all that dumb.
Just brings me back to where I was - be prepared, be ready, and evolve as they do, or they'll gain an impetus and they'll know it. My own, lol..nazis don't have fucking 'rallies' in public, and haven't in 30 years, we know how stupid that shit is, and not just because of federal law enforcement but because there's one fucked up, peanut-brittle situation in this country where someone can snap at the drop of a hat.
Stay ready, stay smart - the day I hear of some Commie offing one of you faggots is the day I mobilize safety squads and raid homes. I'm serious, be smart out here, guys.