Absolutely no reasonable person protesting on Saturday expected the federal government to lie down immediately and just give up, turn democratic and liberal, enact single payer healthcare and stop needlessly sending people to places like "Alligator Alcatraz" without due process. If that was your expectation, you are stupid. I still think you're great, of course, but you are either willfully ignorant or woefully naive.
A lot of naysayers who are supposedly "on the same side" are poo-pooing all over this with statements like "it was pointless" and "it achieved nothing". Be ignorant like MAGA if you want, it's a free country.
My small, rural, southern town that held a protest was planning for around 150 people to attend. Last I heard, the official number of attendees was around 300. It might not sound like much, but that was an enormous surprise to pretty much everyone. We even had a Trump supporter drive around dozens of times blasting his horn and doing the most pitiful attempt at rolling coal you've probably ever seen. It was great!
But, I know for a fact, I personally realized that there are way more of my neighbors than I thought who are politically aligned with me. I saw dozens upon dozens, maybe even hundreds of people in their cars honking, waving, blowing kisses, giving thumbs up. I guarantee you at least some of those folks drove down the local highway feeling like they were alone, outliers, and surrounded by haters, then they hit the first intersection in town and saw literally hundreds of their neighbors who agree with them politically. That's empowering and that's absolutely NOT pointless.
