At this point. Trump’s supporters are being offered three choices: 1) allow the ‘protestors’ to assault them, risking injury; 2) avoid the protests, which effectively means staying out of the public events supporting Trump; 3) fight back.
I’m too old to take a beating, and too infirm to fight back anymore, as I did on occasion in the past. So am I just going to have let these ‘protests’ restrict my rights to free speech and assembly?
See #5.