I think you’re right. And I think it’s in large part because news is largely a right-wing echo chamber. Not that there aren’t left-leaning outlets, but the most visible outlets are either overtly right-leaning or spend all their time platforming right-leaning people and then lending them legitimacy by mainstream-washing the completely bonkers garbage they spew.

“Kristi Noem, known for her no-nonsense stance on pet discipline…”, “President Trump attended an understated and somber celebration of American military history…”

Anyway, point is when enough people stand together they become difficult to ignore and de-legitimize. Just the act of uniting so many people from every walk of life, particularly in light of Trump’s failure parade on sadness street, is empowering. Trump barely broke into double-digit thousands offering $1k per person (I don’t know what the actual number is, but I’m sure it’s not more than 10% of the “official” tally).

It was a stroke of genius to hold the protest on Trump’s birthday, making it a clear contest which Trump lost by yuge margins—margins like you’ve never seen before. Some people are saying the biggest margins ever.

Even Fox News can’t spin that as anything other than abject failure, and if there’s anything MAGA hates more than minorities, it’s losers.

I hope this means the next round of protests hits the 10 million people mark.

No Kings hit 13 million in total. The estimates you see floating around were produces by Alt National Park Service, who had people out there counting, and the reason there are many is that they posted estimates on their (I think Bluesky???) account as the day progressed, so larger estimates simply came from later in the day and 13 million was the final estimate. And no, this doesn’t mean Trump will be legally forced to resign by the 3.5% “rule”.