Is there a consensus about it’s utility? I’ve seen some people doom spiraling and thinking is going to blood in the streets from people getting mowed down by troops and feds. I’m not one to say nothing ever happens, but when it does it just seems to be a slow burn.
They have no reason to do that. The protest doesn’t have any specific demands and no explicit message. It is a symbol of civil discontent but nothing more. It’s not a real threat to any institution. Mowing down protesters in the streets would be an absurd escalation over nothing.
I still think a weak protest is better than no protest, but I’m really just lukewarm about it at best.
Right wingers will not be using this logic or these facts. They are being propagandized. Karoline Leavitt called Democrats; Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals, and anti-semites. Right wingers are looking at at everyone on the leftish through that kind of lens.
And the people her very angry when that’s pointed out