CROSS PLAINS, Wis. — As Milwaukee opens its doors to tens of thousands of Republican Party conventiongoers this week, the leftist-led city also welcomes an anticipated 5,000 Trump-hating protesters in the wake of an assassination attempt on the GOP presumptive nominee.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Coalition to March on the RNC is preparing for a “major march and rally” today outside a — hopefully — heightened security perimeter around the Fiserv Forum, home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and the temporary digs of this week’s Republican National Convention. The coalition includes the usual Marxist suspects demonstrating for a host of leftist pet causes, from their twisted view of “genocide in Gaza” to trans insanity. The Chinese communists will be there, as will the home team of left-wing zealots such as the Milwaukee branch of the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Milwaukee city officials approved every leftist protest request, according to the New York Post.
But this year the demonstrators, many well known to law enforcement, are flying their hostile freak flags in the shadow of a near-miss attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump, slated to receive his third-straight GOP presidential nomination later this week.
Julio Rosas, Blaze Media’s national correspondent and author of Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America, knows the Marxist movement in America inside and out. He told me many of the same players who participated in the violent Black Lives Matter-driven protests the summer of the last presidential election cycle will be front and center in Milwaukee.
He gave a weatherman’s chance of 30 percent to 40 percent potential for chaos in the streets. That was before the murderous events Saturday at the Pennsylvania Trump rally.
“Especially now that Biden’s senility and mental state has taken a nose dive over the past couple of months, I think the leftist’s fear of Trump coming back to office might motivate them to be a little bit more rowdy than they planned on being before the debate,” Rosas told me Friday on the Vicki McKenna Show in Milwaukee.
‘They Are Not Welcome Here’
Organizers behind the coalition of some 120 leftist groups have said as much.
“With all the developments with Biden, that makes Trump a much more imminent threat, and that’s going to increase our numbers,” protest leader Omar Flores told The New York Times. “People see the urgency in taking this on.”
Republicans will be rudely greeted in Wisconsin’s largest and Democrat-heavy city by groups like Reproductive Justice Action in Milwaukee, which demands unfettered murder of the unborn any time, anywhere, for whatever reason.
“[Republicans] are not welcome here,” Carly Klein, a member of the abortion-on-demand group, told the Times. “They are not welcome in our city.”
Just how unwelcoming the militant leftists plan to be remains to be seen.
Flores told NBC News that the demonstrators are planning a “family friendly” protest. But he offered an ominous admonishment.
“And there’s no really no reason to believe that anything else will happen unless the cops have something else in mind,” he told the news outlet.
Under Fire
Law enforcement — local and federal — are on “high alert” following Saturday’s assassination attempt that wounded Trump, killed a rally attendee, and critically injured two others. The U.S. Secret Service is under fire for failures to protect the former president and the crowd from a gunman who remarkably climbed up on a nearby roof in full view and was able to get off several shots, including one that hit Trump’s ear, before being fatally shot.
“The incident in Pennsylvania has understandably led to questions about potential updates or changes to the security for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” said U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle this morning in a statement. “The U.S. Secret Service, in conjunction with our Federal, state and local law enforcement and public safety partners, designs operational security plans for National Special Security Events (NSSE) to be dynamic in order to respond to a kinetic security environment and the most up-to-date intelligence from our partners.”
Outside the convention, Trump- and conservative-haters are assembled en masse. But they’re much farther away from the convention’s front door than they’d like to be. Recently, a federal judge agreed with the RNC on a security plan keeping the protesters farther away from the convention campus. The leftist coalition and their attorneys at the ACLU cried foul, but they’re not getting a whole lot of sympathy following Saturday’s political violence in Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin is still healing from the wounds of the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests that ripped and burned their way through Milwaukee and Madison, culminating with the deadly riot that burned down portions of Kenosha.
Rosas covered the chaos of 2020, and he will be outside the security perimeter in downtown Milwaukee with the congregating leftists this time around. He said Milwaukee Police — who were vilified, as law enforcement was in general, by the Marxist BLM movement and the accomplice media — may still have their hands tied by lingering anti-police politics four years later.
“There were lessons learned, but they were the wrong ones,” he said, noting that 2020 riots in Milwaukee were made worse by the perception that police using tear gas and pepper spray on violent protesters was “too harsh.”
“They don’t want to seem like they’re cracking down on ‘mostly peaceful protesters,’ which, of course, is a ridiculous notion,” he said.
Listen to the full interview with investigative reporter Julio Rosas:
