I hate voicing my dark thoughts sometimes because it feels like breathing life into them, but the nationwide protests are set to occur again on April 19th. On April 20th, there’s all that hoopla about hitting the 90 day point for the Trump admin releasing a determination if they can use the enemies and insurrection act.
Ostensibly the original executive order was about the southern border, but really, all that needs to happen is violence at 1 or two rallies, for the police to either over-react, or for them to pull back and let die-hard Trump supporters who already think we’re in a civil war to commit a terror attack against the protestors, and enough random footage that the news channels can skew the interpretation and put it on a loop.

And it’s sort of self-perpetuating from there. If he invokes the insurrection act, then arrests someone beloved (or at least widely liked), I can’t imagine it wouldn’t trigger more protests, which get targeted more, and in much the same way the anti-genocide protests were. Except instead of playing the protests as a way to portray national support for Trump as divided (as republicans did under Biden), they’ll portray protestors as anti-American revolutionaries plotting to take away guns and replace them with strap ones and forced gender transitions or some nonsense.