What happened on the Boston Common this Saturday?

It sounds like a protest of the protest.
A funny place for libertarians and conservatives to raise their voices.

Boston has layers, and there is tension between some of the layers.
Of course the counter-protestors, not those that pick fights but those who stand together against hate-speech, can see Boston as a symbol of liberty and freedom and so on.

In fact, Boston has people who prefer to keep their mouths shut, and who are closer to the current administration's ideology than they let on.

Such mixed messages.