>>38319
>It's quite the opposite I reckon, it will only make people vote for the republicans

Plenty of people think same. But don't underestimate power of society, especially when it is about almost religious issue. Even people who suffered from looting still say remarks like "of course we support protests". Common person not so often wants to play contrarian and hide his true intentions, he mostly does what others do and have same beliefs (and rarely cares much about them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments