"It's a tactical move. You don't get any concessions by being nice."
I'm watching a 20 year old Canadian tv drama and the person speaking is an aggressive advocate for the homeless. He's talking about moving a homeless encampment from a squat in a poor downtown area of a city into a park that's a nice (pricey?) area. He wants controversy. I immediately thought of today's No Kings protest which the libs designed from the ground up to make zero demands. And the libs would have to agree its also designed to be nice.
The use for communists is that.
The use the libs have in mind is purely electoral. They aren't protests, they are electoral rallies masquerading as protest.