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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.