Narrative violation: there have been many more protests during Trump's 2nd term.
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Insofar as I guy I really like:
substack.com/home/post/p-15
Links to a guy who seems good:
truthandcons.substack.com/p/how-dead-are
Which links to this. Also, idk of any other source trying to gather data about this.
"The Democratic Party's actions had left many U.S. citizens feeling humiliated. Signs of a Trump victory were proclaimed well before Biden withdrew from the race. The voters had had enough."
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A lot of folks were saying protests were more subdued and people were tired now.
So we count the Women's March, which took place in hundreds of towns and cities across America as "one" protest
Also we ignore the complete difference in scale of the number of protestors.
Do you think we're idiots?
would love to have comparative size estimates of the protests now vs. 2017. Also, a more comprehensive list of the focus of each protest (e.g. are the smaller pro-Palestine that are still going on & that preceded the Trump admin being counted, etc.)
Actually, it's not surprising at all. The "resistance" during Trump's first term was, prior to the George Floyd riots, concentrated among very vocal but not numerous urban creatives. Now, it's middle class impoverishment that's driving opposition even if it's less visible.
Interesting, wonder about crowd size in each year though - there were certainly some very large protests early in 2017
A rundown of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promises and whether he has or hasn’t delivered.
"the United States has its own storied history of resisting authoritarianism through noncooperation...In 1815, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson of his hope that
But all protests disappeared the moment Trump got elected!!!