Published at 16:15 on 7 June 2025
Nice Liberals might fret about stories like this, but I see them as signs of hope. At long last, grassroots resistance to Trump seems to be emerging on the streets, and hopefully in time for Trump to have a long, hot summer.
Because, yes, unrest can involve excesses, but so far, these are not happening. A little graffiti and blocked traffic? Sure, those things are illegal. But Trump is breaking laws left and right (and getting very little pushback from the Democrats) and getting away with it, so let’s have some perspective here.
I mean, really now. There are literal gangs of masked fascist goons arresting people without due process under the president’s orders, and yet the real problem is supposed to be some graffiti, disrespectful chanting, and blocked traffic? Please.
It is interesting to note that the Nice Liberals were wringing their hands when MLK was disrupting business as usual in the Civil Rights Era. So much so that MLK himself wrote about the phenomenon in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. And yet, real substantive gains were won as a result of that unrest, gains that had failed to happen in well over a century of quiet, polite, obsessively lawful action (or, more commonly, inaction).
And, a lot more recently, Biden cruised to victory on the heels of Black Lives Matter protests (and even a few literal riots) that disrupted business as usual.
Historical evidence indicates unrest is not so universally toxic as the Nice Liberals claim it to be. In fact, it often tends to accompany or precede periods of progressive change.
