1. Some very smart people, notably @michelleinbklyn & @mattyglesias, have been calling for protest movements to support the cause of impeachment. An in fact, groups like Indivisible are pushing for an Impeachment Eve marches. But worth thinking about the goal here.
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4. House Democrats are pursuing a narrow impeachment strategy but protest movement doesn't have to: protesters can (and should) bring up wider case against Trump. And also focus pressure on Senate GOP. More thoughts here: https://www.thenation.com/article/impeachment-protest-streets-trump/ …
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5. Correction: the scholar of Trump protests (and author of the fine book American Resistance) is
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Yes. I plan to go. But the timing is bad (tomorrow night). It’s coming in Christmas and where I live it is dark and cold...maybe we can look at this as sort of a oremarch to build up steam.
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The Women’s March was undermined by controversy.
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I'm not a fan of "disparate grounds for outrage" protests. I like narrowly focused protests. IIRC Occupy was gaining support until it became an umbrella protest.
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The Women's march achieved nothing. What worked was *shutting down airports* after the 1st Muslim ban. But *shutting down airports* is bad for business and *thus* provokes a reaction from government. Marches are innocuous pressure valves and thus provoke no reaction.
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Anyone who’s paid serious attention to world events in 2019 winces at the idea that the 2017 Women’s March was “big.” But of course English language news is ignoring events; e.g. not a word yet on Chile usin, in effect, chemical weapons against civilians.https://twitter.com/midnucas/status/1206645034046476289?s=21 …
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