Yep. There is zero chance that their response would be “Oh, I think it’s resolved itself, let’s move on” if HRC’s people did this.

Agreed. It is exhausting to explain to my own family members (who are all aggressively anti-protest, anti-protestor) that someone else earning or exercising rights doesn’t take theirs away at all. They complained a lot about the 2016 post-election protests in my hometown but had virtually nothing to say about the…

I suspect their response to that would be some form of “he won the election, we won, we don’t have to protest”.