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Why aren't we in the streets?
Jan. 30th, 2025 08:44 amThere are apparently people in Europe wondering why Americans aren't filling the streets with protests already; they would be doing that if their governments were taking a tenth of the outrageous actions ours is taking.
There are several answers. First, we did that, the day after he was inaugurated the first time. It produced a wonderful feeling of community, but had no effect whatsoever on DJT or his behavior. He loves opposition: the more opposition he faces, the greater the triumph when he crushes it.
Which leads to the second reason. We've got four (or more!) years of this ahead of us. He's going to do outrageous, sadistic, illegal things every single day for the next four years, as he did the first time; no one person can afford to spend every single day for four years protesting in the streets, and if the protests in the streets are distributed across all the outrageous, sadistic, illegal things he does, each one will look pitifully small, as though most people were fine with it.
We'll oppose and expose his outrageous, sadistic, illegal actions, but no one person can even keep track of all of them, much less take to the streets in protest of every one of them.
There are several answers. First, we did that, the day after he was inaugurated the first time. It produced a wonderful feeling of community, but had no effect whatsoever on DJT or his behavior. He loves opposition: the more opposition he faces, the greater the triumph when he crushes it.
Which leads to the second reason. We've got four (or more!) years of this ahead of us. He's going to do outrageous, sadistic, illegal things every single day for the next four years, as he did the first time; no one person can afford to spend every single day for four years protesting in the streets, and if the protests in the streets are distributed across all the outrageous, sadistic, illegal things he does, each one will look pitifully small, as though most people were fine with it.
We'll oppose and expose his outrageous, sadistic, illegal actions, but no one person can even keep track of all of them, much less take to the streets in protest of every one of them.
