For The Cynics Who Say Mass Protests “Don’t Work”
For all the smug cynicism out there post the “No Kings 2.0” nationwide mass protests against the fascist Trump admin which just happened Saturday, October 18th 2025, saying that these mass protests “don’t do anything, won’t do anything,” that it’s all just a “fun parade that makes people feel better,” and “just a bunch of tribal virtue signaling, blah blah…” No one is say ing that mass protests alone create all the changes needed, but they are a (historically proven) PART of the cocktail for change and resistance needless to say, and without which the higher strategic steps of targeted boycotts, strikes, direct action, systemically disruptive non-violent civil disobedience, legislative components, etc., aren’t possible—unless we have a mass movement, which starts by galvanizing and unifying the people in the streets viscerally together. Its where it starts, especially when things have become so dire—when all three branches of government are controlled and being flagrantly abused, when ...