Why Aren't We in the Streets? - Susan Glasser The New Yorker

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1. The people are ultimately responsible for this disaster, those who voted for Trump.

And those who didn’t vote at all.

Most realize that demonstrations won’t change anything; that Trump won’t be driven from office by popular outrage or by a popular uprising.

Congressional Republicans are ignoring the town hall backlash, lying about ‘Democratic plants’ being responsible.

Being critical of Democratic leadership and elected Democrats is wrongheaded and ill-conceived – removed from the levers of power there’s little they can do save speak out in opposition to Trump, opposition that will also be ignored by Trump and Congressional Republicans.

Neither Trump nor Musk are the true villain in this debacle – it’s the majority who voted for Trump; the people deserve to suffer the consequences of the bad government they sought.