Johnson keeps saying "trained activists" like he's saying "convicted murderers." This is essential to the right's project: if the left gets its shit together, that means its democratic participation is inherently illegitimate.
I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...
paulwaldman.substack.com
The Right's Greatest Fear Is an Organized Left
What's happening in Minneapolis is deep democratic participation, and the right says it can't be real.
Ron Johnson to Keith Ellison: "Two people are dead because you encouraged them to put themselves into harm's way! And now you are exploiting those two martyrs. You ought to feel damn guilty about it. Yeah, sit there and smirk. Smirk. It's sick! It's despicable. You disgust me."