Resolved: Never Compromise with Evil
The Southern Connecticut Republican Party Convention rally begins on New Haven’s green. Hours late, 50 High School kids from a Wide Awake chapter in the racist Southeastern suburbs limp into view. Wrapped in bloody bandages and splints, eleven of their crew are still at the hospital. The boys had marched into a Democratic Party trap. Pinned down by a shower of bricks thrown from rooftops, and penned in by fences, most of the kids suffered broken bones. One boy’s skull is cracked so badly that he loses an eye. The New Haven rally becomes the start of a blood feud. All of the Republican politicians in attendance are pressured to swear an oath, aloud, to never give an inch to the Democrats. The Wide Awakes declare they would support no compromisers.