Last week, former President Donald Trump said he believed he would be indicted by the New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his part in a hush-money scheme involving an alleged affair with Stormy Daniels. He made a big to-do about it by cranking up the caps in both his online messaging and at his rallies.
Trump called for protests, saying all of this was a “witch hunt.” Americans tried to remind each other about the last time Trump called for “peaceful” protests: his election loss. The comparisons came because, not unlike the last time, Trump asked his MAGA hordes to believe his lies and threaten and cajole the people attempting to enforce our country’s laws into allowing the Donald to skate free once again.
On Monday, as New York Police Department put out steel gates in the hopes of managing a series of protests, it very quickly became clear that the overwhelming majority of people protesting between 56th and 57th Streets on Fifth Avenue were Americans sick and tired of Donald Trump.
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Here’s what amounts to the protest in front of Trump’s New York monstrosity, Trump Tower. Note the person blowing a shofar. I guess this makes this a pre-Passover event?
Newsmax had a fun spin, implying that while there seemed to be next to no Trump supporters out protesting, those who were protesting in support of a Trump indictment were suspiciously well organized! Er, I mean too suspiciously.
As someone in the comments explained, here’s a good example of a “grassroots banner.”
There are a lot of people documenting what is, in essence, a poorly organized student film shoot.
Some of the more conspiratorially-minded Trump supporters (see, most Trump supporters) may have stayed away, as they fear virtually everything outside of their front doors.
You know things are going badly when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is doing damage control for you that looks like this:
A quick reminder of how the post looked and what the content was of Donald Trump’s call for protest:
And here’s Sen. Lindsey Graham, taking time away from stuffing his face at Mar-a-Lago socials to fan the flames of civil unrest since it didn’t pan out Monday and Tuesday.
That “Lindsey Graham” guy looks like someone I’ve seen before.
Progressives have had tremendous success passing all sorts of reforms at the ballot box in recent years, including measures that have expanded Medicaid, increased the minimum wage, and created independent redistricting commissions. How have Republicans responded? By making it harder to qualify measures for the ballot.
On this episode of The Downballot we take a deep dive on the GOP's war on ballot initiatives, which includes burdensome signature requirements that disproportionately impact liberals; ramping up the threshold for passage for citizen-backed measures but not those referred by legislatures; and simply repealing voter-passed laws Republicans don't like. But Republican power is not unfettered, and Stephen explains how progressives can fight back by defeating efforts to curtail ballot measures—many of which voters themselves would first have to approve.