Here’s the pitch: Titus Andronicus in outer space.
You might have forced a smile, sitting through a meeting with Steve Bannon during his Hollywood years in the early nineties. Today, as Trump’s chief advisor, the world’s second-most-powerful man designate has other scenarios to sell. But before Bannon was merely taking over the free world, he was bent on conquering Tinseltown, and he had a serious obsession: he wanted to make a movie version of Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s bloodiest revenge play, rife with murder, rape, and disembowelment.
I think there is danger in both underestimating and overestimating the Trump regime. The danger in underestimating them lies in hoping that they whole junta will just disintegrate within a few weeks under the weight of its own incompetence and just sort of go away, which seems like wishful thinking. (And even if it did, what then? Are they going to roll over and hand the White House to Clinton, or invite Obama and Joe back? A takeover by the military and/or intelligence and security services seems more likely.) The danger in overestimating them lies in the possibility of massively demoralizing everyone who is aghast at what's going on and paralyzing them with the thought that whatever actions they may take might be "just what they want us to do", according to their diabolical plan.
Protests were held throughout the '80s and early '90s, The last time politics was this polarised so I think you're almost certainly wrong to be so cynical
I am not cynical at all, just looking back - I mean you UK lot especially have protested Thatcher for over a decade. Resulting in nothing.
There's ultimately nothing you can do about the majority of voters being malevolent and spiteful and sadistic.
trump's base doesn't like everything he's done so far...they absolutely LOVE everything he's done so far, and view the protesters here as just a bunch of whining, sore loser coastal elites. and they couldn't give two shits about protesters in foreign countries. trump's low approvals and high disapprovals are coming from democrats, independents and probably some embarrassed republicans.