A Back the Blue rally in small town Massachusetts in August 2020. Urgency and tension dominated the gathering. Agitators appeared with signs meant to enflame the crowd and the event quickly devolved into shouting and violence.
A few in the crowd, like the woman above, expressed fatigue and nostalgia for a seemingly extinct political era marked by civility.
An agitator is taken away by police. His sign was destroyed. His phone, which he was using to record, was lost.
Attendees fold a flag taken from one of the agitators.
