What’s Next for the Normie Anti-Trump Protest Movement?
People thought 2016 was a fluke. Shouldn’t have happened. It was an accident. Maybe Comey was to blame. [Trump] didn’t win a majority or a plurality. They thought, this is a footnote of history that we’re going to correct, and we’re going to correct it through our own actions. And 2024 revealed, oh no, there’s something truly broken here.
I’ve been calling 2025 the year of the normie protester.
I mean, I think the heroes of 2025 are the folks who actually stood up and risked something in order to push [back on] authoritarianism. And that’s not the elites, that’s not the media, that’s not law firms, that’s not universities, by and large. It’s normal everyday people who said, “Fuck this. We’re not going along with it.” Just very stubborn people. I think those are very clearly the heroes of 2025, and in doing so, [they] have started shifting the political system and the broader, broader society, and the direction Trump at the end of 2025 does not look inevitable. He does not look unstoppable.
