Within the video above, I discuss why Republicans are doing a lot to discredit the No Kings protest. I’d be grateful in the event you gave it a watch.
Three of the six largest protests in US historical past have taken place when Donald Trump was president. Two of the six largest have occurred throughout the lower than ten months of the second Trump administration. The Fingers Off protest and the No Kings protest, which drew 5 million individuals, ought to have bothered Republicans, however they didn’t.
As a substitute, it’s the second No Kings protest scheduled for October 18th that has Republicans rattled.
Republican management, like Speaker Mike Johnson, has been attempting to discredit the protest earlier than it occurs.
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On Wednesday, Johnson mentioned:
I encourage you to look at. We name it the Hate America rally that’ll occur Saturday. Let’s see who exhibits up for that. I wager you see pro-Hamas supporters. I wager you see Antifa varieties. I wager you see the Marxist in full show. The individuals who don’t wish to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.
And that’s what we’re right here doing each single day. And I, we’ll proceed to return in each morning and inform the American individuals the plain and easy details as a result of the details are gonna win the day. Right here, the American persons are not silly. They see what’s happening.
Video of Johnson:
Many individuals are accustomed to Erica Chenoweth’s analysis, a Professor of Public Coverage at Harvard Kennedy Faculty, which finds that no regime can stand up to a problem of three.5% of the inhabitants.
That is an attention-grabbing discovering and an excellent motivator for people who find themselves organizing a protest, however what does it imply in actual phrases?
In actual phrases, and in phrases that Home Republicans perceive, a protest of that scale can be a possible signifier of a wave election.
Learn extra about why Republicans are actually nervous about No Kings under.
