"Even for those who did not assemble on either
weekend, the pictures carried special power. Amplified on social media
and echoing across every TV network, they suggested something larger
afoot, something democracy-defining. “Something’s happening out there,”
Ana Navarro, the Republican never-Trumper and television pundit, declared on Twitter.
Something
sure is. We’re witnessing the stirrings of a national popular movement
aimed at defeating the policies of Mr. Trump. It is a movement without
official leaders. In fact, to a noteworthy degree, the formal apparatus
of the Democratic Party has been nearly absent from the uprisings.
Unlike the Tea Party
and the white-supremacist “alt-right,” the new movement has no name.
Call it the alt-left, or, if you want to really drive Mr. Trump up the
wall, the alt-majority.
Or call it nothing. Though
nameless and decentralized, the movement isn’t chaotic. Because it was
hatched on social networks and is dispatched by mobile phones, it
appears to be organizationally sophisticated and ferociously savvy about
conquering the media.
Over two weekends, the
protests have accomplished something just about unprecedented in the
nearly two years since Mr. Trump first declared his White House run:
They have nudged him from the media spotlight he depends on. They are
the only force we’ve seen that has been capable of untangling his
singular hold on the media ecosystem."
I wrote about Anonymous in 2008 springing up apparently out of nowhere to take on Scientology. Again we have "leaderless" protests growing from public concern and confronting a problem of obvious concern to many. Organized online, without any hierarchy involved, unconcerned about established organization that isn't doing anything anyway, protesters by the hundreds of thousands move politics. Expect more of this.
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