Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He’s Winning?
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Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump “No Kings” demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general opposition to the ruling Republican Party and to express outrage over their various policies. Like its predecessors, this effort will have zero effect. Performative protests like “No Kings,” the 2017 Women’s March and the Hand’s Off marches this past April—organized by Democratic Party affiliates and allies—cannot accomplish meaningful change because they do not exert political pressure. Because they are nonviolent to the point of self-policing would-be militants in their midst and, occurring on weekends when most businesses and government offices are closed and therefore non-disruptive, the crowds pose no threat to the rich and powerful or their pet politicians. Trump and MAGA world are every day. They work tirelessly to push their radical right agenda. “No Kings” and likeminded exercises in safe, sanitized street displays (“in many places the events looked more like a street party”) meet once…
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