What is being said about troublemakers and anarchists in relation to peaceful protests and the larger liberal or progressive community?
I would not consider these troublemakers "liberals" in any fashion; the actual liberals stayed at the peaceful protest.  For years Eugene's liberals have been plagued by these anarchists and other extremists who give liberals and Progressives  a bad name, and now that our nation faces a crisis of authoritarianism we need to make clear these fools do NOT speak for us.