#Via Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
6:33 PM · Mar 28, 2026

"If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.

That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right."

...We know the protests are working as we watch DHS officials crack under pressure of enforcing unpopular & unethical immigration roundups of minors.

...Minimizing the impact of consistent episodic community-centered protests only serves interests of ruling elite and undermines efforts to build political pressure esp. on elected Dems

SUCCESSFUL CHANGE REQUIRES BOTH POLITICAL PRESSURE & COVER. WHICH CAN ONLY BE DONE AT THE SCALE OF MASS PROTESTS.

4/4

These events HAVE led to a GREAT DEAL of grassroots organizing & local caregiving.

Rebecca Solnit:

"You can be thrilled by the things that are happening and horrified by the things that should be happening but aren’t. Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything."
"Changing the world is more like caregiving than like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."

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