The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested.
“Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday,” independent data journalist G Elliott posted to X Sunday.
For reference, that’d mean Saturday’s demonstrations featured 1-2% of the total population of 340 million taking to the streets in more than 2,000 cities to voice their opposition to the increasingly authoritarian, far-right policies the president has pursued since assuming office for the second time.
Biggest protest in US history so far.
This 110%!
The next one will probably be No Kings 2 combined with anti Iran war protests.
I was gonna say. Now we get to add anti-war protesting to an already lengthy list of complaints. This is going to get huge.
You want to protest the war? We have a whole anti-trump protest movement already warmed up and ready to go. C’mon in.
personally I’m excited for Gulf War V https://youtu.be/P0FYB2QkakU
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Most effective protest in US history.
And I helped!
To do what?
To make it the biggest, dumbass.
Average American voter there…
It was the first protest I’ve ever attended.
It won’t be the last.
Historically, a regime falls when around 3.5 percent of the general population protest. You can do it, US, I believe in you!
I think the statistic of 3.5 is more of a symptom rather than the cause of a regime’s fall. For 3.5% to protest means that:
- Anger has reached a high level in the general population (a lot lot higher than 3.5%),
- The state of affairs is dire enough and hopeless enough that the trust that the system can improve on its own is very very low.
Probably other reasons.
BS stat.
This oversells it. 3.5% is the level at which experts say can cause a “Tipping Point” for a trend to take hold, such as a dad like hula-hoops or yo-yos, to revolutions.
It’s not guaranteed, though.
I keep seeing estimates of everything from that 4-6 million up to 11 million or even 13 million.
I also saw estimates of 5 million for the Hands Off protests and these were definitely a lot bigger than that (certainly at least twice as big at my location), so either the Hands Off one was over-estimated or the 4-5 million for No Kings is underestimated.
And yet a different auditing group says it was 13.14 million protesters.
Wikipedia’s list of largest protests in the U.S.
Isn’t it still significantly smaller than Earth day 1970? I’d also like to see how it compares to percentage of population since the US has more people now than when other big protests took place. But still, good job America.
Did someone say “tea party?”
I am so bringing tea next time
As in % of the population?
But did it accomplish anything?
Unfortunately change requires repeated and/or sustained protests over time, so we’ll have to see. But this was a good sign that it may be possible. If we go to war with Iran, a whole new cohort will be added to the numbers.
Biggest polite walk and talk for two hours.
Let me be clear, I’m all for No Kings. But this isn’t gonna change anything, if you want change then radicalize your tactics. The images out of LA should be the starting place for what these protests should look like. Your tolerance for safe protesting takes away the value of the message. If you don’t want Kings, bring out the guillotine and make it clear. Otherwise, buckle up: you’re in MAGA land. And they don’t take too kindly to their opposition.
Yes, the quantity of protesters is honorable. But the quality of protests does nothing to further the fight. Talk and no action makes you a cheerleader.
If you intend on fighting for the cause, expect to be imprisoned, beaten, maybe even killed. Revolutions are messy, don’t let tolerance be in the way to liberation.
That’s a lot of words to be so wrong. History proves peacefully protesting works far more than a violent protest ever does.
I never said to be violent. Disruption can be peaceful. The point is for change, what was the point of the No Kings protest of DJT is still in office? What is the point of protesting this regime if they’re still in power. What does one day of protesting do?
Was there even any cohesive message other than, “America doesn’t have kings”? I didn’t see one. Sure, it rallied people together, but to do what?
We need an actual leader. Someone or something with consistency. Protest are good, but a day isn’t enough. We need a plan and a strategy.
Right now it’s just a fucking mess.