#MassiveProtests Against #Trump are Just The Beginning

A co-founder of #Indivisible lays out a vision for harnessing millions of protesters into an unstoppable pro-democracy movement

by Tim Dickerson, April 8, 2025

Excerpts: "The demonstrations were organized by a broad coalition — including groups that rose to prominence in the first Trump administration, like Indivisible, upstarts like the #50501Movement, as well as established grassroots groups like #MoveOn. The upswell of resistance surprised even seasoned organizers. Indivisible cofounder #EzraLevin texted Rolling Stone on Friday to predict 'one of the largest single-day protests in years' adding that the public response was “kind of shocking."

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"This was a Big Tent — everybody from like #DSA to #MattYglesias and #NeverTrump Republicans were endorsing it. I had briefly gotten excited about calling this the 'Normal March.'

"Like the wacko, MAGA, right-wing crazies are not gonna be part of this. But if you’re a normal person, you would want to take part. Because obviously you oppose #Project2025, you oppose #DOGE and the richest man in the world coming after your #SocialSecurity.

"But I’m happy we went with '#HandsOff.' It served as a good rallying cry, because we all come to this for different reasons. Maybe we’re concerned about the #tariffs, maybe we’re concerned about #TransKids in our community being targeted, or the #immigrants being disappeared, or maybe we’re concerned about Social Security. We’ve all got something to fight back on."

Read more:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-protests-democracy-hands-off-indivisible-1235312482/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/eohLD
#Resistance #Resist #ResistAuthoritarianism #ResistFascism #BadDOGE

declare the (always right-wing) “vibe shift” and think about how we are going to accommodate ourselves to it might not, in fact, be the best way to do politics.

re #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-vibes-they-are-a-shiftin

There’s a genre of public affairs writing I call “Taking out the trash.” It becomes necessary when prominent, respected people say, as they very often do, tendentious and ill-considered stuff. Suddenly there’s garbage that might rot in the ears of people in power. A taking-out-the-trash piece debunks it.

It’s thankless work. Countering bullshit-in-a-fancy-suit is no one's idea of a good time. But it’s God’s work.

#MaxMoran and #HenryBurke respond to #MattYglesias https://prospect.org/power/2024-08-13-what-we-talk-about-revolving-door/

"When I first came to town, I was scandalized by the rumors of off-label prescription drug use on Air Force Force One during George W. Bush’s presidency, but it turns out every administration is like that — not just for POTUS but for senior staff as well — because it’s the only way to do the job."

// this is quite the aside from #MattYglesias, who does i think frequently talk to these people

https://www.slowboring.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-biden

"When you have two peoples both insisting on moonshot strategies rather than trying to maximize their core interests, the result is violence and death." #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-failures-of-zionism-and-anti

“The specific thing that has transfixed a global audience of idealistic young people is the concrete suffering of Palestinian civilians. That’s something that could be resolved far short of dissolving the State of Israel.” #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/what-israel-does-matters

"every time I go to Maine I find myself thinking that they should charge a higher sales tax in the summer than during the off-season. Maine residents would be able to save money by timing durable goods purchases for the low season, while visitors would make a larger contribution to the state budget."

Clever, #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/tourism-is-good-actually

“I’m mildly obsessed with the phrase “the exception that proves the rule,” which does not mean that the existence of an exception proves that a rule is true, but that examining the best exception to a proposed rule helps you define the limits of that rule.” #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/why-the-parties-cant-decide

#MattYglesias makes an interesting point.

In the past, a two-state solution in Israel was undercut by Israeli security fears about a hostile, very intimate neighbor. But now, Yglesias argues, Israel and its Arab neighbors share a joint security interest in deterring Iran, but the Palestinian problem prevents full alliance and cooperation that would improve their mutual security. So security risks of a Palestinian state must be balanced against security benefits.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-two-state-solution-is-still-best

Make a case for antitrust, but say it is a case for "deregulation" instead, because your master thesis is that the problem is "the left" is gumming up the works.

(To be fair, measured productivity can rise in a sclerotic monopolized economy as rents are scored in GDP and the weight of them on purses can lead to underemployment and a smaller denominator. But I don't think that's what Matt's after.)

from #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/its-not-just-biden

So much for Ron Dezastris’ insistence on quick return to school saving Florida from education fallout. https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/11/08/act-scores-down-florid-college-testing ht #MattYglesias @Bwheatnyc

#MattYglesias writes "Not the main point of this post but notable that we’ve been seeing wage inequality falling going back to the last couple years of the Obama administration, through Trump and continuing into Biden. "

Are Real Wages Rising? - by Joseph Politano
https://www.apricitas.io/p/are-real-wages-rising

Well that's not the conventional wisdom is it? I wonder how Canada compares...