Posted on 12/18/2019 6:47:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Tens of thousands of people across the country marched in support of impeachment Tuesday evening, from a demonstration through a rainy Times Square to handfuls of activists standing vigil in small towns around the country.
Liberal groups organized more than 600 events from Alaska to Florida, following a familiar model of mass protest that has come to define the left during the Trump administration.
For all the passion among activists, the gatherings were notably smaller than many of the other recent mass protests that began with the millions-strong Women's Marches the day after Trump's inaugural and have ranged over subjects from climate change to gun control.
In San Francisco, Marti McKee, a commercial artist, has been distributing signs and placards to marchers ever since Trump won the 2016 election. She has been struck by how impeachment draws so many fewer people to the streets than other causes.
“It's upsetting, considering that we're talking about corruption that affects our democracy," she said. “I don't understand why everyone isn't out in the streets.”
In Denver, Thaddeus Bruno, 41, lamented that only a few hundred people had turned out. A friend attributed it to people being “Trump-sick,” or worn out by the controversies surrounding the president.
“Everyone gets Trump-sick,” Bruno said. “You take your Tums and go to the next rally.”
Jonah Wankoff-Zern of Public Citizen, one of the groups spearheading the demonstrations, cautioned against evaluating the impeachment marches purely on head count. He noted they were organized at the last-minute, on a weeknight, to coincide with the scheduled House vote on the two articles of impeachment Wednesday.
“This is a rapid-response mobilization,” he said.
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Look, a Trump rally gets about 40,000 attendees, including a lot of overflow attendees outside the venue. Can you imagine if a Trump rally could get access to a 50,000-plus seat football stadium? :-O
AAAAAAAAACCCCCHHHHH!.....................
A typo that ended up being amazingly accurate.
Well Soros Steyer and gay murderer millionaires only
have so much $ to hand out
“Trump is going to have tens of thousands tonight in Battle Creek, a relatively modest-sized town in Michigan.”
...LOL. “Modest” crowds for Trump are 10,000. And those are the ones that can’t get in.
In the meantime tens of thousands of people show up every week for anti impeachment rallies with Donald Trump.
“Modest but passionate turn out” = “small group of loonies”.
Gay Mafia
RENT A MOB IS THE DEMOCRAT WAY...
Look for the buses and preprinted signs and ads for ‘protesters’ on Craig’s List.
Last night’s impeachment rallies were all sponsored by moveon.org which of course is funded by George Soros. Moveon.org website has the evidence to prove this.
irony, since we know how moveon.org got its name. Maybe the they should just move on.
Exactly my point!!
Yet, the LYING NBC/FakeNews “reports” about these astroturfing/paid for leftist gatherings of, what, hundreds, at most???
NEVER one word about the 40K NON-paid, Trump rally attendances.
Remember the astroturf BS to stop Muller from supposedly being fired?
Most dont.
The one in my town yesterday, held in the cold and in the dark, looked truely pathetic. Bunch of jackasses chanting “this is what democracy looks like”.
Like what? Standing in the frigging cold over something you cant articulate?
Hell the morons I argued with online didnt once even try to speak to the details of the issue!
More fake news. Haven’t seen any turnout in uber lib Austin, TX or mention of any protest on their news sites.
“corruption that affects our democracy”
Boy.... that sounds like that was an original thought by the muppet. Wonder if the hand up her ass controlling her words can give us some DETAILS on that.
Apparently such a threat doesnt require it from them.
T. S. Eliot?
WB Yeats — The Second Coming
Impeachment rallies are moderate but passionate. Dem speak for small in numbers but very noisy. About as effective as a popcorn fart in a hurricane.
“Can you imagine if a Trump rally could get access to a 50,000-plus....”
It will be a reality when he wins the 2020. IMO
Perfect liberal name. ;-P
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