Although the newly independent Venezuela proclaimed a democratic government, political power remained in the hands of the whites, and royalist sympathisers took advantage of this to incite rebellion among the disadvantaged classes.
Or that you're fearful of going to a march that you've gone to before because his sympathisers will tug at you and pull at you and force you out of the public space.
During the war, New York passed a wave of legislation targeting British sympathisers and their property but after the peace treaty signed with Britain, Hamilton defended the rights of the loyalists in court and in the press.