I guess that's one business-owner we can trust not to sample the wares...

The link doesn't make that assertion.

You know bookstores are going out of business everywhere and the survivors are struggling.

Maybe the bookstore owner just doesn't need this stuff in his store. He doesn't want to lose either side as customers.

Why should he have to deal with that in his store? Bookstores are having a tough time of it right now.

The reason for Cooke’s call was his feeling that diverse views should be tolerated in the store rather than attacked, the Times-Dispatch reported.

The phrase "diverse views" is rapidly become obsolete from disuse. At one time the left and the right were relatively tolerant of, and polite to, each other. For example, if you're old enough, think about the Ford and Carter years. There were lots of serious disagreements back then. But few people behaved in an extreme manner.

Now many progressives blast every conservative as "hateful". And many conservatives blast every progressive as "un-American". It's all very depressing.

I'm no sociologist. But from what I can tell, conservatives started this current round of intolerance and verbal violence when they tried to impeach Bill Clinton. But it really doesn't matter who started it. Both sides have by now embraced it. As I just said, it's very depressing.

...to actual pieces of trash. The garbage in my dumpster would be horrified to be compared to Bannon.

He did what he thought was right. Open is open. Something to be said for defending that principle.

I'd be curious to find out what his personal views on Bannon are, however.

That might be a reason to stay away.

You can't verbally assault someone. You can verbally abused them, but not verbally assault them.

The way I learned it was assault was when I say I'm going to punch you in the nose. Battery is when he punches you in the nose.

Just wondering. Asking for a friend.

disrupting the 'comfortable complicity' of White America with Trumpism.

Trump and Bannon are no different than David Duke and the KKK, except worse since they control the most powerful gov't in the world.

Getting called a piece of trash far more mild than what these fascists deserve.

Fascism is more a form of terrorism than a legitimate political viewpoint, and does not deserve space in the mainstream sphere of society.