Controversial question about protesting.

I applaud the idea that we are protesting authoritarianism in this country but is peaceful protesting enough? At some point don't the farmers have to stand outside Tom Emmer's door in Delano holding torches and pitchforks? It doesn't seem to me that tweating is going to make these guys change their vote or get the Epstein files released. Filing lawsuits only to have them appealed up to a stacked supreme court seems to be a waste of time. They just ignore any verdict against them anyway. Who's going to enforce it? Lawsuits take a lot of time and money. Are we just waiting for Trump to die from old age? What about the next guy? Is this country going to be fixed by wearing $50 inflatable frog suits from Walmart? Really?! That sounds like a new bloodless french revolution.

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BlueVeins · 26-30

Holding a big ass protest undermines Trump's claim to being a popular President, which is a claim on which he stakes a lot of his credibility. Having big protests like this also helps uphold the right to protest. If people protest more, it becomes more socially accepted and if Trump goes after protesters then, he faces more backlash.

These protests won't improve Trump's behavior on their own. They won't depose him from power, or turn the Republicans against him, or anything. If the Republicans fall from power, it'll probably be a death from one thousand cuts and this will be one of them. No government can survive without, at the very least, the begrudging passivity of its people.