People are tired and no one wants to go back to the days of constant protest, property damage, and police violence during the first Trump administration. We did our best in 2016-2020 and America still decided to vote in Trump 2.0. Everyone is exhausted. The fascists won and anything we could do short of Luigi-ing everyone who deserves it isn’t going to make any difference.
The honest to goodness best outcome is that we decide to secede into Cascadia and drop this whole US nonsense. It’s clear that we’re already two separate countries.
Turnout was worse than I expected, about 1,000 people:
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/02/anti-trump-crowd-marches-across-downtown-portland-bridges.html
“nowhere near the crowd levels of the 100,000 people who hit the streets in Portland for the Women’s March in January 2016”
Trying to find out if Salem was any better.
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2025/02/17/protest-donald-trump-oregon-state-capitol-presidents-day/78982657007/
Nothing precise, just “hundreds”.
Maybe we need clearer goals? Trump isn’t stepping down, he’s not removing Musk, DOGE is going to DOGE… What’s the goal here?
People are tired and no one wants to go back to the days of constant protest, property damage, and police violence during the first Trump administration. We did our best in 2016-2020 and America still decided to vote in Trump 2.0. Everyone is exhausted. The fascists won and anything we could do short of Luigi-ing everyone who deserves it isn’t going to make any difference.
The honest to goodness best outcome is that we decide to secede into Cascadia and drop this whole US nonsense. It’s clear that we’re already two separate countries.