I dunno, the Tea Party had a huge effect for its numbers, unlike No Kings, which has vanished from the media in 2 days, or 2010's Occupy movements, which we've memory holed entirely.
Bender•3m ago
Maybe I'm just getting too old for such things but every protest I have seen after the Tea Party just looks like a bunch of unstables throwing tantrums. If I were their opposition it would just bolster my position and empower me to send in more troops. I think part of the root cause has to be modern movements just not really thinking things through. There is probably a lot more too it but that is just my opinion and hot take I guess. It probably does not help that NGO's are leaving piles of bricks on every corner and setting protestors up for escalation and failure. I think they should also have a way to root out the agent provocateurs.
bediger4000•7m ago
Bender•3m ago