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Saying this is a pretty strong indicator of Not Paying Attention Syndrome. What "potential leftism" was derailed by these protests?
The way people on Hexbear have been talking about 50501 and No Kings and stuff couldn't make it more obvious that they've simply never bothered to engage with them to any extent. It's a bunch of fart-sniffing online "leftists" who are too cool to go to where literally millions of people are in political motion because you imagine that their politics are gross and irredeemably bad.
I'm gonna write up a separate post admonishing all you losers instead of just you in this one comment.
The anti-deportation protests that were crushed by the military had the potential to become another summer of uprisings.
Although of course the uprisings in 2020 weren't really "leftist" and were just an outpouring of outrage from the masses, and of course there is no organized left to lead the masses towards productive action, but the purpose of No Kings was certainly to help Trump prevent unrest.
No Kings had absolutely no part in derailing that and 50501 was a useful vehicle for solidarity protests across the country. And I'm sorry, do you think the struggle over deportation is already over?
What seems to have happened is No Kings sucked all the oxygen out of the room and the confrontation in LA has calmed down. Yesterday there were no overnight arrests for the first time since the protests began. The struggle isn't over, but it seems to have been pacified in LA.
Spontaneous community self-defense violence by its very nature doesn't last and comes in fits and starts. To look at the first wave of it in the current moment and say it was already defeated assumes that the rage has subsided and been subsumed. I don't think the No Kings protest had nearly as much to do with it as the work week taking everybody's time away. The violence in the streets was over days before the protest happened.
The work week took everyone's time away, sure, and No Kings took the weekend away - the nail in the coffin.
I think we'll see more outbursts from the masses in the future (a single weekend of counterrevolution can't actually pacify the masses forever) but I think they bought themselves time with this stunt.