Software entrepreneur Vincent Xavier Palathingal, 54, says he left Kerala a quarter century ago and settled in the US to escape “large-scale Leftist violence and atrocities” at home. Now he finds himself defending his decision to join — Indian Tricolour in hand — a rally at Capitol Hill on Wednesday, soon after which large-scale Rightist violence erupted. But, roasted on social media for carrying the national flag to an American show of bigotry, the Kochi-born chairperson of the US-based Accubits Technologies, which has an office at Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram, is not too fazed if a tad defensive. He has glib answers to every difficult question, much like the man he reveres: US President Donald Trump.