‘No Kings’ Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst
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For reference, that’s between 1 and 2 percent of the total population of the United States.

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.

  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
    335·
    13 days ago

    Historically, a regime falls when around 3.5 percent of the general population protest. You can do it, US, I believe in you!

    • Mohamed@lemmy.ca
      5·
      12 days ago

      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:

      1. Anger has reached a high level in the general population (a lot lot higher than 3.5%),
      2. 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.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      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.