Civil disobedience is a constant of history. Like the Boston Tea Party, a violent symbolic demonstration against British tyranny in 1773 that preceded the American Revolutionary War. An unelected English king appointed English governors who ruled with an iron hand in the colonies. There was taxation without representation and American colonists had no peaceful political recourse.

On the night after Donald Trump’ s first presidential election in November 2016 there were acts of civil disobedience in downtown Denver, with angry, disturbed, Trump-hating Democrats blocking traffic on city streets and near the Broncos stadium on I-25 (where I was personally trapped in my car for most of an hour before the police politely ushered them away.)

Trump’s crime was winning a free and fair election

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