Posted on 08/21/2025 1:56:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
DC is built for protests. But after Trump’s takeover, they aren’t happening.
In the early summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Washington in raucous protests against the police killing of George Floyd.
In the late summer of 2025, following an unprecedented Trump administration takeover of local law enforcement, the best local critics have done so far is a relatively small procession from Dupont Circle around the White House demanding that “Donald Trump must go.” “Danger! Danger! There’s a fascist in the White House!” marchers chanted, at one point yelling at the occupants of a National Guard Humvee, which was quickly surrounded by D.C. Police. It was a well-organized, energetic demonstration, but all in all, there were only a few hundred marchers.
Where’s the rest of this famously progressive city?
To hear activists and national Democrats tell it, the takeover of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and the flood of federal forces into the capital are a sign of rising authoritarianism. It may be happening in Washington thanks to an odd constitutional status, but the president himself has talked about sending forces to other Democratic-led cities next.
Yet considering those alleged stakes, the nation’s capital has been weirdly quiet. Last weekend, the military vehicles parked at photogenic locations around the National Mall were surrounded by curious photographers, not outraged civil libertarians. Some friendly tourists even asked the troops for selfies.
Local elected officials, eager not to provoke the administration, have been diplomatic in expressing their dismay. Notably, the small protests I went to were dominated by dedicated activists. One was sponsored by Free D.C., a grass-roots pro-statehood group. The other, which involved the march to the White House, was organized by Refuse Fascism, an anti-Trump group with historic ties to the....
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Only the guilty need to avoid showing their faces outside in DC now.
Unpaid child support, unpaid alimony, outstanding bench warrants, crimes with “no suspects” that they committed.
Thus, the streets are vacant.
In the early summer of 2020, at the height of the lockdowns, the Democrat Party sent thousands of thugs onto the streets to terrorize American cities.
The lockdowns, the riots, the 2020 election. The whole thing stinks.
The only time I found my Chicago grammar school in the news was about a murder in the playground where I used to play in the sandbox and on the jungle gym. I didn’t make the 50th anniversary trip but I hear the bus of students had a police escort.
“Police killing of George Floyd”
GTF outta here. The guy was a grade A POS who stuck a load of Fentanyl up his ass and OD’d.
The NGO money has dried up.
The NGO money has dried up.
“””GTF outta here. The guy was a grade A POS who stuck a load of Fentanyl up his ass and OD’d.”””
It’s called hooping. He told the cops he had been doing it. It is very deadly.
Nah.........................
Because they support what he's doing even if they won't admit it.
Only white liberals are protesting.
Because they’re scared the masked Sturmabteilung will beat the living shit out of them.
“Some cited the season: “The only thing I can think of is, it’s August and people are away,” said George Conway, a strident Trump critic...”
Hey, Stupid, the folks who are suffering from crime are not the ones who can AFFROD a vacation!
Never type when angry
AFFORD
“The NGO money has dried up.”
No more deficit spending from USAID to prop them up, I guess.
His only claim to fame and raison d'être.
The residents of the high crime districts I’ve seen interviewed seem to be quite happy with Trump’s decision.
Maybe a lot of the protesters were homeless paid by the democrats.
Gosh ever since exposures and crackdowns reduced BLM and ANtifa funds, and USAID and numerous community organizing charities, there are fewer protests. WHAT could it be? Why are the protests dying out??? *pausing to page Captain Obvious*
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