How does it end?

[matt819]

To be specific, how do the protests end?

Trump is unlikely to resign.

And he’s also unlikely to make any grand conciliatory gesture. He’s congenitally unable, of course, and no one would believe any attempt anyway.

With millions out of work, it’s not as if the protesters are going to stop because they have to go to work

Will the arrests of the other three cops in the george Floyd murder do it?

Press coverage of police brutality is not even slowing down occurrences of such criminality.

Maybe President Obama’s speech this afternoon will have an effect.

Or does this go on until November? Or until trump does so something so egregious that it’s too dangerous to protest?

I haven’t read anything about anyone gaming out these scenarios.

[Squinch]

1. How does it always end? The protests will peter out. No specific immediate

results will ensue. I'm sorry. I hate to say it. But this IS how it has historically gone.

But hopefully this has galvanized a lot of people to vote who have not in the past. Because this is where the real power lies. And the demographics of the population have changed in the past decade or so such that, if we all vote, we will NEVER lose.

[matt819]

2. I thought this too

But if that were the case, I thought it would have petered out by now. That it hasn’t is what prompted my post.

[Squinch]

3. I don't know. But do you think that Donny Bodybags's idiocy revved them up again?

I have been praying for the violence to die down, but after he intentionally and systematically went after American citizens, I found myself thinking, "Go bigger tomorrow!"

[brooklynite]

4. These movements can evolve into a steady state for an indefinite period, and then burn out

Case in point: the OCCUPY WALL STREET encampment

[MineralMan]

5. The protests will dwindle over time.

They pretty much always do. Here in the Twin Cities of MN, where it all started, we had a thunderstorm late yesterday afternoon. There were no reports this morning about any protest actions later, once the storm had moved on.

Large-scale protests tend to have a short lifespan, measured in days.