Only if you want to pretend their intentions were "peaceable."
It looks to me like a lot of folks from both sides went to that park looking for a fight.
I would agree with that. The difference is that the one group was going there to
defend a peaceful political assembly, and the other was going there to disrupt one.
By all means, let's dispense with our manners. Civil discourse is for pansies.
I'm all for civil discourse. But it takes two to have civil discourse -- it only takes one to start a fight.
In all seriousness -- what exactly are you advocating? That conservative groups should just accept having thugs get violent and disrupt their rallies, and
not fight back? Won't that just embolden the violent left to expand their opposition because they know it is successful? I'm all for letting
anyone hold their own rallies. But street goons shutting down the rallies of political opponents...that's some really bad stuff. And if those guys fighting back were going out and affirmatively disrupting leftist rallies, I'd say the exact same thing.
I'd also point out that it is things like this that will force law enforcement to do their job and keep groups like these separated. But if nobody fights back, it'll just be leftists repeatedly shutting down anyone with whom they disagree. And that's dangerous.