The American center-left lacks leadership. I would happily march every week if marches were organized, branded, and effectively communicated as a critical defense of our democracy. Rolling marches in every major city; sign up for your weekly march; recruit your friends; nonstop pressure. 1/2
But since we have no organizational or political leaders, we won’t do that. Instead we’ll wait until he incites us to a spasmodic and violent protest, which will play precisely into his hands. We can do this our way and win, in the tradition of massive non-violence, or we can do it his way and fail.