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I would demur on that.
Yes, it does indeed matter if Trump agitates and instigates angry protests.
It matters a great deal.
Witness: What we saw on January 6th on the stage of the Eclipse. Don Trump had a profound responsibility to be a moderating and measured voice to the assembled crowd of his fans. He had an immense duty as a leader to ensure that his more rabid MAGAfans would not act out in a violent fashion. He had seen them do it before in previous rallies. He knew what they were capable of. Yet....
Yet, he ---and Rudy, and Eastman, and Brooks, and Fredo, and Guilfoyle.....all agitated and angered the assembled fans and turned them into a violent mob that promptly went and beat the hell out of uniformed federal police, vandalized our People's House, and threatened to kill the Vice President and the Speaker of the House.
We ALL saw it happen ....as it happened.
So yeah, it matters a great deal if Don Trump will be a responsible civic-minded leader of his fans, or an instigator of more violence.