During the two most successful American protest movements in my lifetime, you never saw a demonstrator carrying a gun. The civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam sit-ins employed political activism, songs, and signs to spread their messages. Even in the face of bigoted cops, vicious dogs, and weaponized firehoses, the non-violent tactics worked.

Hours after granting professional dirty trickster Roger Stone his get-out-of-jail card with a commutation, President Trump was teeing off at one of his golf resorts in Virginia. It was the 275^th time in his presidency that the Duffer in Chief had hit the links courtesy of American taxpayers to the tune of more than $137M, according to the website trumpgolfcount.com.