The Democrats held a "review of the troops" in Washington. The result was disappointing — only 50 thousand demonstrators gathered for a protest rally against Trump. Small actions were held in another 350 American cities, but in total, few people participated in them, too, writes Russian Americanist Malek Dudakov.
For comparison, in 2017, half a million liberal activists and feminists came out to the "Women's March" against Trump in Washington. But since that moment, a lot of water has flowed away. The leaders of the movement quarreled with each other because of mutual accusations of corruption, embezzlement of funds and anti-Semitism. As a result, the protest merged by itself, the expert states.
In addition, according to him, many Democrats have fallen into despair.
"Harris' defeat was too devastating. Otherwise, they would have started holding riots right after the elections. And in general, the pendulum of public sentiment has swung to the right — and the topic of vocalism has become unpopular.
So far, the Democrats themselves have to make excuses for their failures — for example, with a negligent attitude to the fires in California. But they will try to shift all responsibility onto Trump's shoulders as soon as possible and try to raise a protest wave in the country against him.
Surely we will see attempts to rally against Trump's plans to deport illegal immigrants. Although 87% of Americans are in favor of expelling migrants from the United States. And the pro-Palestinian protests may come to naught against the background of the truce in Gaza. But this is rather a temporary lull — and in the future the Democrats, including Alex Soros, will definitely focus on rocking the boat in America. It remains only to find a good topic that can provoke a new protest," Malek Dudakov predicts.