r/politics • u/RoachedCoach California • 26d ago

Soft Paywall Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/07/31/trump-impeachment-smithsonian/
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u/magnoliasmanor Rhode Island 26d ago

We've protested. Peaceful. We had no kings march which was arguably one of the largest single day protests in American history and it was ignored by the media.

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u/Cruyelo 26d ago

It was a good effort, but it's important to ask: how many successful protests against a dictator lasted less than 24 hours? So far, all the protests that I see being shared online are short by design. (Including the upcoming one. Rage against the Regime)

A protest is meant to keep going until you get what you're protesting for. What has been happening so far seems like a good practice, a good way to get people used to going out and ready for a protest, but I don't expect any of them to be successful until people are willing to stay in the streets indefinitely. 

This isn't to dismiss what has been done, I think they're good stepping stones toward bigger things, but they've been ignored by the media because those protests were easy to ignore. They should be used as a training ground for protests that cannot be ignored, by anyone.

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u/fcocyclone Iowa 26d ago

The problem on the other end is that any protest that lasts longer has a way of getting shut down. The police will identify one person causing problems in a crowd of thousands and use that as flimsy justification to shut it all down and start arresting people willy nilly (often with charges later dropped, but you still go for the ride)

The 1A has basically been broken at this point.

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u/DrMobius0 26d ago

The police will send someone in to cause problems