It was one of the largest nationwide protests in American history. And on a day with rain and shitty weather in much of the country.And I think that you are falling for the same trap that Democrats have been falling into.
Apparently there was a study a while back where they looked at hundreds of cases of protests over the years and when 3.5% of the population participates, it has always resulted in significant change.
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.www.bbc.com
There are approximately 360 million Americans, which means that if the estimates of 13 million at the No Kings protests are correct, then that threshold was achieved.
Is it a guarantee of change? Who knows, but to write it off as wasted time is probably a bad idea.
McM and others have been saying for years that the rise of Trump was not so much Trump himself but the fact that he gave voice to a significant portion of the population who was feeling like they were being ignored or left behind by the Democrats.
Just because you are happy with everything Trump is doing right now, doesn't mean that all people that voted for him are happy also. Just like the Biden voters in 2020 were hoping for a moderate who could stabilize the post-covid world, they were not happy with how things turned out and how the administration tried to achieve their goals (thus leading to Trump 2.0)
If you ignore a chunk of the population, writing off their concerns as stupid and a waste of time, you may very well end up with the anti-Trump who is going to swing the pendulum even further the other direction.
Anyone who dismisses Saturday’s protest as inconsequential is a fool.
