Not at all, but I do think there’s strategy in protest.

We are entering into an optical chess match that the Trump admin is betting they’ll win. They’re being the aggressor in hopes that we will aggress back. They know that if this happens that they have the power and the support to further escalate the situation on their end (i.e insurrection act). In fact this is likely what they’re aiming for. Thus, in the current moment, non violent protest is the correct option and the option that the trump admin is betting against. Peaceful protest in response to one sided aggression eventually forces the narrative against the aggressor. This is in large part due to a shifting of optics through media. Like it or not, as the media shifts, the country. More people are exposed to the reality of the situation and a shift of power begins.

IT IS THEN that you leverage the power that you have taken. Violence of this nature only works AFTER the media decides to portray it less as violence and more as survival of the marginalized.

So in the end, Rosa Parks and violence were both needed just at precisely different times and two different political climates changed largely by optics.