The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested.
“Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday,” independent data journalist G Elliott posted to X Sunday.
For reference, that’d mean Saturday’s demonstrations featured 1-2% of the total population of 340 million taking to the streets in more than 2,000 cities to voice their opposition to the increasingly authoritarian, far-right policies the president has pursued since assuming office for the second time.
Biggest polite walk and talk for two hours.
Let me be clear, I’m all for No Kings. But this isn’t gonna change anything, if you want change then radicalize your tactics. The images out of LA should be the starting place for what these protests should look like. Your tolerance for safe protesting takes away the value of the message. If you don’t want Kings, bring out the guillotine and make it clear. Otherwise, buckle up: you’re in MAGA land. And they don’t take too kindly to their opposition.
Yes, the quantity of protesters is honorable. But the quality of protests does nothing to further the fight. Talk and no action makes you a cheerleader.
If you intend on fighting for the cause, expect to be imprisoned, beaten, maybe even killed. Revolutions are messy, don’t let tolerance be in the way to liberation.
That’s a lot of words to be so wrong. History proves peacefully protesting works far more than a violent protest ever does.
I never said to be violent. Disruption can be peaceful. The point is for change, what was the point of the No Kings protest of DJT is still in office? What is the point of protesting this regime if they’re still in power. What does one day of protesting do?
Was there even any cohesive message other than, “America doesn’t have kings”? I didn’t see one. Sure, it rallied people together, but to do what?
We need an actual leader. Someone or something with consistency. Protest are good, but a day isn’t enough. We need a plan and a strategy.
Right now it’s just a fucking mess.