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Apart from this, the issue is also that that's not that many and it was very clearly controlled opposition. Most events even in big cities were smaller than the attendance of a high profile sports match. Much fewer than you might find at a music festival. Combine that with the compliance with pathetic protesting rules and utter lack of outcome, what exactly do you think was going to be publicised? Literally 10 times the largest No Kings protest attended a Lady Gaga concert a month earlier.
Spending six weeks trying to organise 2000 simultaneous protests, with an average attendance of 2,500 people at each, while Trump spent that six weeks absolutely ravaging the US democratic system, is the most US Democrat nothingness possible.
BS I was in a smaller city and was so many people that few blocks of street were blocked.
And this was during the time trump deployed troops in LA, and assassination of politicians on the same day.
which amounted to nothing but being used as the conflict against trumps parade for engagement. it was dropped out of the news cycle two days later. No leader, no goals, no demand, no threat, no leverage, no outcome.
it was the epitome of virtue signaling, and feel goods. but accomplished nothing, and i worry it accomplished worse then nothing because it placated a bunch of people who thought they made a difference. i was there and i participated in the hope i would be proven wrong about my doubts only to have them proven.