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Trump has repeatedly suggested that he will use the military on the "enemy from within". Protests could end up looking like what we see in Belarus and Russia - masked "police" shows up and they beat them up and / or take them away.

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and that makes you scared? you are playing into his hand if so. that makes me want to go to the streets even more.

They didn't use the term scared, and being scared is not implicitly "going into hiding".

It's because I'm scared that I'm going to protest on April 5 in my state capital.

context clues suggest to me that the commenter is worried about militarized violence against protestors (scared)

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