r/Left_News • u/SocialDemocracies ↙️↙️↙️ • 3d ago
American Politics Sen. Chris Murphy says mass nonviolent protests opposing President Trump are increasingly likely | “I think the threat to our democracy is real,” Murphy said. “It is acute. I think it is very likely you are going to need hundreds of thousands of people engaged in mass-scale mobilization.”
https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-03-30/sen-chris-murphy-says-mass-nonviolent-protests-opposing-president-donald-trump-are-increasingly-likely8
u/hereandthere_nowhere ↙️↙️↙️ 3d ago
Yep, about 3.5% should do it! LETS GO!
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u/papasan_mamasan 3d ago
Dem leaders should be leading us in a strike. This radical right take over needs to end.
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u/xigdit 3d ago
Private sector workers need to show solidarity with laid off public sector workers and organize a massive general strike and boycotts targetted against companies that stand to benefit from DOGE cuts and Trump's ruinous tariffs. And hundreds of thousands isn't enough, more like millions.
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u/ClownTown509 3d ago
Like duh, that's how it's always been here. How TF you think we got The Constitution?
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u/twotokers 3d ago
That’s all good and dandy, but how does this not end up like the Occupy protests that had basically zero demands or actual goals laid out?
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