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It appears quiet. When you simply go searching daily in america, it might seem that life is shifting alongside and the American persons are tolerating the second presidency of Donald Trump.

There isn’t any unrest within the streets of America’s cities and small cities. There isn’t any violence. In truth, what we had been instructed earlier than the election may occur, that society would immediately disintegrate, hasn’t occurred.

Many within the media who ran Biden off of the Democratic ticket after which bent the knee to Trump regarded round at what should be disappointment.

The media, like Trump, had been banking on chaos and concern to convey eyeballs again and revive their enterprise after 4 years of wrestle underneath Joe Biden.

Donald Trump wanted chaos and concern to function a pretext for the consolidation of energy inside the govt department. The media wanted chaos and concern to get their viewers again.

America appears serene on the floor, however there was a quiet seething and a rising pushback beneath the floor that the elites and Trump by no means noticed coming.

The power and energy of the opposition to Trump and the kind of governance he needs to impose on the nation rose up and made itself seen on No Kings Day.

The No Kings Day protest is reportedly the most important single-day protest in US historical past.

Knowledge scientist G. Elliot Morris posted on X:

Primarily based on a whole bunch of crowd-sourced information of No Kings Day occasion turnout, and extrapolating for the cities the place we do not have knowledge but, it appears like roughly 4-6m folks protested Trump throughout the U.S. yesterday. Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 ranges.

Morris calculated that there have been simply over 5,000 protests towards Trump in 2017. In 2025, there have already been effectively over 15,000 protests towards Trump.

It isn’t simply Trump’s unpopularity fueling the protests, however the truth that protesting has modified.

One in every of my analysis specializations is standard protest and its impression on public coverage.

Right here I’m discussing the protests on Substack Reside:

The most important change in protesting is that the mannequin of protest has modified. Up to now, the most important protests can be held in a single location. For instance, the civil rights march on Washington, the Million Man March, veterans’ protests, and nationwide anti-war protests.