Where Are the Protests? Why Aren’t People Pusing Back on the Trump Agenda with Signs and Banners?

~ Laura

Donald Trump and his merry band of spectrum-y nerds are rewriting the federal code, reorganizing international relations, and shifting the boundaries of constitutions. The stock market is tanking. Eggs cost their weight in gold. The president’s hatred of Joe Biden is mafia-level intense; Joe should be on the watch for a horse head in his bed. 

Democratic leaders are too enfeabled and disorganized to put up a good fight. The grassroots level isn’t mobilizing either. Wouldn’t you think with all these major changes, folks would be taking to the streets with signs? Organizations should be forming. Folks should be walking around in pink pussy hats or something equally silly.

Perhaps we’re not seeing massive protests yet, because folks are in shock. There’s always a delayed reaction to a massive change in the status. 

So, like, the government can throw out green card recipients from the country for saying crappy things? What? 

And the president can get around Congressional approval to get rid of a cabinet level department by firing all the staff and leaving the wrestling lady sitting by herself at a desk in an empty building? Hello? 

He’s putting the richest man in the world in charge of rewriting government? Um.. give me a minute to process that news.

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6 thoughts on “Where Are the Protests? Why Aren’t People Pusing Back on the Trump Agenda with Signs and Banners?”

  1. Archimedes, him said: “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” Anti-Trumpies have no fulcrum, no lever. Trump has a (narrow) tri-fecta. He is also doing a bunch of things with widespread approval from flyover voters: border control, expel thugs who came in over the border, stop trans women from inserting themselves into women’s sports, de-woke-ifying the military. The inflationary effects of his tariffs have barely started to hit. Flyover voters continue sore about the disdain they have received and are still receiving from The View and Hillary Clinton coastal newspaper editorial boards. So his numbers are not disastrous.

    This is his honeymoon. Some Dems think the thing to do is to stand out of the way and let him own the consequences. (Schumer) Some think the thing to do is giant marches with pussy hats and burning Teslas. (AOC). I tend to think Schumer has the better argument, but I would, wouldn’t I?

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  2. When I write to my senators and congressman (all D, only the rep is in a competitive race) I keep asking: what should *we* the people do? I know what I think R Senators and Reps should do – show some inkling of a spine – but I do not know if the Schumer approach or the AOC approach is better.

    There are protests, even in my very small town, but the question is: what goes on the protest signs? Should it be, “Musk fires 82,000 veterans” – something that many people object to? Or, “your Social Security will be gone”? Or “disabled kids will lose their education”? Should it be about arresting and imprisoning people without any contact with the judicial system? (Of course the administration’s response is, we *know* these are all the worst of the gang members, so trust us – and if people trust them, what is there to do about that?) Should it be about our utter infidelity to Ukraine, Canada, and all of our allies, alongside uncritical acceptance of everything Putin and Netayahu say? Who can be convinced to care about what?

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  3. There are protests, but they aren’t being covered in the major media outlets, which are basically owned by the bro-ligarchs. Also, it’s winter, so the weather has been discouraging, especially in the northeast.

    People are going to their Congresspersons’ town halls. My sister is planning to go to her Congressperson’s (Lawler in NY) next month; Suozzi in Long Island is doing virtual (tele-) town halls.

    We’d taken down our pro-LGBTQ and Harris/Walz signs a few weeks ago after a bad windstorm, but I put them back up Wednesday when the weather finally got nice. I like to remind people about how they could have chosen better.

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    1. That tool at the townhall in Nebraska who said “Is taxing the rich your solution?” and everyone cheered. He’s the Rep for my old district.

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      1. Ugh, I’m sorry.

        My current rep has been making the rounds on news programs and doing a pretty good job, but he supports making changes to Section 230 and I am not happy about that.

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