Backfire

So the feds moved out and left us a weekend of smaller and mostly peaceful protests. After accomplishing what?

All it ever was, was a PR stunt. Trump and his administration wanted to convince people they could put down anything that looks like unrest, anywhere: because, as I've written here before, fearmongering only works if you can hold out the promise of protection. The backfire was, not only did the means prove unpopular across the country, but they failed to accomplish the desired result. The protests got bigger, by some reports as much tenfold. They got louder. More damage to the courthouse. Press coverage around the globe, including photos of Mayor Wheeler gasping in pain after being tear-gassed.

(BTW, Ted: I give you props for guts, but you've been in bed with PPB since at least the summer of 2017. And they were in bed with Patriot Prayer at the time. You really think we can trust you?)

Meanwhile, some of the pop-up protest groups, like Wall of Moms and Riot Ribs, have had conflicts and/or collapses of leadership. It's a bummer. But it's an inevitable aspect of leaderless resistance: people come to it with different agendas, not everyone is satisfied, some move on.

It's OK. We stood off the feds. We were not moved.

But now is not the time to quit. The feds leaving only gets us back to where we were in the middle of July. And it ain't enough.

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