That's good to know. It just looked so weird. I knew what I wrote was also weird, but it felt less weird.

while more impactful, that takes more prep time and work. there is a magic to booing. it is uncontrollable, unstoppable, and requires no thought. it gives everyone a free space in which to enter into a grand vocalization of "we stand for what you do not." there is no real way to boo performatively. there is too little room for interpretation within the reverberations of the crowd.

if you do not like booing the 47th president of the united states, i recommend digging into what the problem with the act is, and consider that there's many routes to resistance. for me, i don't like booing the president because the president is meant to be a spectacle. it doesn't matter if you love or hate him. it matters that you feel strongly. the argument i can hear is that you want to increase another kind of spectacle to give the people something to engage in. me, i want to remove him from all spectacle he engages in from my life and focus on community engagement. there is likely valor to both.

but please. consider that better than throwing things at him, giving him the spectacle he thrives in, might be when he appears at an event you are at, that means you don't care about the org that let him in in the first place anymore. get up out of your seat, and make your way to the exit, never to return again.

Yet basically all dictators have been harsh on even the lightest of protests, since if you allow it, the protests will grow until you can't deal with it.

Public protests like these are highly useful to fight against Mr. Trump.

A few boos from folks in the cheap seats seems like a small price to pay when you can feast on the townsfolk every night with abandon.

You may be assuming some executive function (delayed gratification) that is missing from the observed behaviour.