I've covered and attended numerous rallies at Westlake. I was literally one of the first reporters in the country to cover the birth of the Tea Party movement for this very newspaper. With that one lone exception, the vast majority of these events are nothing burgers to use the parlance popular today. A couple dozen or a couple hundred folks go down, wave some signs, chant a little, listen to some speakers and have a jolly good time yelling at and/or debating whoever shows up to disagree. Then they'll go home feeling good about themselves having "done something".

It's all so boring. It's all so predictable.  

The only reason why this event should feel "ominous" is if people - in this particular case leftists, progressives, Antifa, etc - intend to go down there in order to make trouble.