This morning, I awoke to begin another day of campaign work for my House of Delegates run in central Virginia, and was met by warning that immediately sent shivers down my spine:
FYI to everyone - Please stay out of downtown CVille this afternoon and tonight with kids as Kessler is bringing the "Proud Boys" weird gas mask wearing pseudo-militant group to stir up stuff.
They want a confrontation; there’s no doubt about that. Invading our community, purposefully going to places in our community where families love to take their kids on a Saturday afternoon. It’s as raw a provocation as being slapped directly in the face.
We need to get this warning out, to everyone in the community- don’t. Don’t engage these folks. Don’t play their game. They’re desperate to start a fight, a confrontation, because that’s the only way these folks live. Attention is like oxygen to them, and if you deprive them of that, they’ll wither away.
We need to treat them like the Westboro Baptist Church; mock them rightfully. Show them sure, they can show up with their bullshit white supremacist views, and try to destroy and interrupt our community, but we’re strong than they’ll EVER be.
But every time we play their game, we play the game they want us to play, they win.
Don’t play their game.
Thank you.