[dekhn]

Most big protests in the US happen in the summer, so I think it's worth considering that the large-scale resistance by the populace may actually happen in a few months. I am unclear on what this would look like, for example what level of organization, how regionally distributed, and what level of underlying violence (even peaceful protests) a subset of the protesters will carry out.

One major risk of a peaceful protest that has even a small amount of violence (property damage, etc) is that Trump actively wants to call out the military to break some skulls... and if there is violence, it's hard for the larger community to support the protests (even if the vast majority of people are simply expressing their legal rights to push back against what appears to be a truly tyrannical, unconstitutional government).

[wat10000]

I hope you're right, but the thing I find most distressing about what's happening is how many people are in favor of it. Protests are for converting popular support into official actions. Trump won about half the votes. He didn't seize power in a coup or by holding the legislature at gunpoint. The people gave it to him. Some of those people may have changed their minds since then, but it doesn't seem like there are very many of them.

The real problem isn't Trump, it's the huge number of Americans who think what's happening is great. I don't know how you fix that.