„No Kings“-Proteste finden in festlicher Atmosphäre statt, während in den USA schätzungsweise 7 Millionen Menschen gegen Trumps „Autoritarismus“ demonstrieren.

The numbers are pretty phenomenal, but I keep seeing authoritarian and related words in quotes.

It is. It’s not a question.

More than 7 million

100k+ in Chicago, baby!  Peaceful, fun, high energy, family friendly! We took the kids!

seven million is a good start, but essentially, it’s a tenth of the number of people who voted for the asshole… america you have a lot of work to do yet to save your democracy.

Don’t need quotes around the word authoritarianism.

Why is it so impossible for journalists to write accurate headlines these days? You’re one of our first lines of defense in a democracy, ffs!

I love seeing this, I was at my cities protest and it was incredibly great to see!
But we need more.
More protests, more fighting, don’t let up.
Continue the good fight you champions.
This isn’t over until everyone behind this administration is behind bars

How many showed for the last one? 2 million?

It is important to note that 7 million people registered.

Many more likely attended

Make magatry illegal let’s make this country better. We need maga entirely out of our communities

Please go vote next election

Now this is a much better example of U S. Citizens protesting :

Black Lives Matter (2020): Following the killing of George Floyd, a series of protests drew an estimated 15 to 26 million participants, making it one of the largest protest movements in U.S. history. 

The sad thing is our country is being taken over by a dictator and we can’t even reach these numbers.

Even with millions peacefully protesting in thousands of locations around the country, the Trump administration is still begrudgingly awaiting its Antifa revolution. Republicans are frustrated with these outcomes because they’re not getting the destructive rise they want out of these protestors.

Trump and his allies want an escalation, they want a „war zone,“ they want hostile resistance and mayhem so that they can capture these moments and continue to „flood the zone“ with their disinformation and alarmist propaganda; convincing their voters of some radical left rebellion taking place in cities around the country.

They want to provoke an incident so they can justify further military incursions, so their fearmongering narratives hold up, so their state sanctioned media can falsely depict these cities as „hellholes.“

They want so desperately to be able to rationalize why their inherently authoritarian measures are warranted.

But the reality is, *they* are the „invaders,“ *they* are the provocateurs.

Unfortunately, this lack of a revolution won’t stop the MAGA coalition from labeling their political opponents and critics—even protestors—as „domestic terrorists.“ The Trump administration has given itself the unilateral authority to dictate who meets the official criteria of an „America hating,“ radical Antifa extremist. They’re deliberately using this type of inflammatory language very loosely and vaguely to demonize anyone who protests against Trump and his policies in public.

Trump is federalizing troops and threatening to invoke the insurrection act so he can authorize the military to enforce his will and carry out the law however the regime sees fit.

But for Trump and his followers, „law and order“ simply means punishing your enemies.

This isn’t about reducing crime, nor is it about driving back some imaginary rebellion. It’s about inflicting pain and righteous vengeance on the opposition. It’s about MAGA punishing its make-believe enemies. It’s about suppressing civil liberties and cracking down on protestors and dissenting voices.

And it should go without saying that these excessive measures do absolutely nothing to address the underlying, root causes to crime, gun violence, and domestic extremism.

With the deployment of these federalized troops, and with Trump’s deputizing of trigger happy ICE agents and local law enforcement, Republicans are hoping to provoke an incident from any one person or group out of millions who are protesting this administration’s descent into authoritarianism.

They are creating the conditions for chaos and eagerly anticipating a moment of violent rebellion in response so they can seize the opportunity to paint all protestors as destructive and riotous, and characterize US cities as breeding grounds for „Antifa terrorism.“

That way they can retroactively justify their efforts to centralize authoritarian control over the country and provide a much needed rationalization for the logical next step in their plan—to declare martial law.

But if or when they do, they’ll only be demonstrating that *they* are the monsters, because millions of protestors lawfully taking to the streets to oppose this dictatorial government; dancing; singing; bike riding and marching in defense of their rights is not the „rebellion“ they were hoping for.

Definitely more than 7 million.

That’s a lot of checks for Soros to send to everyone. /s

Why the fuck is authoritarianism in quotes?

When the protest turns to revolution and I can look at my kids and feel safe for their future I’ll be impressed. You don’t protest or vote out dictatorship.

Hopefully it’s more. Chicago easily had over 100k. 

7 million! How will Soros be able afford all this? /s

They were one word away from the correct one… fascism.

Interesting fact: There were only 4 million Americans when the Constitution was signed.

I think a big story is that people from other countries are joining this. There are protests all around the world against Donald J. Trump.

There isn’t going to be an accurate count for a while, and the right is trying to minimize this, so I suspect 7 mil is quite low

75M voted for Trump’s opponent.