In Reply to: With a tiny eye implant and special glasses, some legally blind p posted by mh on October 21, 2025 at 10:15:37
We could write about some norm-shattering Trump nonsense every day, when every hour feels like “unprecedented times.” But I think we need to take a beat and analyze what just happened.
On Saturday, millions of Americans did what Americans have done for generations. They gathered for the greater good to protest injustice and protect our democracy. Multitudes of like-minded people rallied at 2,700 protests in big cities and small towns across all 50 states to oppose the second presidency of Donald Trump.
The turnout of approximately seven million exceeded organizers’ expectations, becoming one of the largest single-day marches in American history. Because Trump cares so much about crowd size, we will put it another way. Collectively, the “No Kings” protests had 14 times the turnout of his two inaugurations combined.
Political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan are scholars of civil resistance. They have studied the success rates of every major peaceful protest since 1900 and coined “the 3.5% rule.” They deduced that when 3.5% of a population protest nonviolently against it’s government, that government is likely to fall from power.