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  • Hard to say but I lean towards no. I think about the civil rights marches of the 50s and 60s, where everyday Americans (who were racist as hell, c'mon) watched police brutalize little Black church ladies crossing a bridge, setting fire hoses and attack dogs loose on Black WW2 veterans. In liberal circles, they say that this "voluntary victimization" of the nonviolent movement kept them sympathetic in the eyes of the population.

    Kent State is actually a great counter argument because it has a lot of differences, and how it was viewed by the public reflects how American perception of protest changed from the 50s to the 70s. By the time Kent State occurred, so much had changed (Kennedy, Vietnam, civil rights) and the American public was experiencing what I'll call "protest fatigue status quoism." White hippie college students throwing rocks at national guard troops to protest a war was nowhere near as sympathetic as Black church goers getting their skulls split by cops so they could vote.

    What also comes to mind is the Tlatelolco Massacre in 1968 in Mexico, though I don't know much about the public perception of that event.

    In conclusion, if it's "wall of moms" getting blasted by cops, people will care. If it's antifa, they won't.

  • acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.

    Slotkin plans to deliver another speech — which is set to focus on “killing sacred cows” — sometime next month.

    “I don’t think we need to hide the fact that Trump is flooding the zone and making us look 12 different ways at the same time,” Slotkin said. “But again, because I come from the national security background, there’s no end to fighting unless you’re dead.”

    We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine