{"id":38531,"date":"2025-04-11T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-power-and-pitfalls-of-protest-how-to-speak-out-without-falling-victim-to-trumps-playbook-jonathan-smucker\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:33","slug":"the-power-and-pitfalls-of-protest-how-to-speak-out-without-falling-victim-to-trumps-playbook-jonathan-smucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-power-and-pitfalls-of-protest-how-to-speak-out-without-falling-victim-to-trumps-playbook-jonathan-smucker\/","title":{"rendered":"The power and pitfalls of protest: how to speak out without falling victim to Trump\u2019s playbook | Jonathan Smucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mass protest surges against Trump and Musk, how can we show up as effectively as possible?<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday I was heartened to be one of millions of Americans who took to the streets in cities and towns across the United States to stand against \u201cthe most brazen power grab in modern history\u201d. While no official total tally of <a href=\"https:\/\/handsoff2025.com\/about\">\u201cHands Off!\u201d<\/a> participants is yet available, the anti-Donald Trump, anti-Elon Musk actions on Saturday were certainly among the largest single day protests in US history, with rallies in all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>As we seem to be entering a new stage of popular protest movements, it\u2019s worth assessing the strategic value of protest, as well as the limits and potential liabilities. History is full of powerful examples of consequential bottom-up protest movements. The women\u2019s suffrage movement secured voting rights after decades of struggle. The civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow segregation. The labor movement won the eight-hour workday, the weekend and much more. Protest was an essential tool for each of these movements. It can take many different forms, including mass demonstrations, boycotts, strikes, unruly disruption and civil disobedience.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/11\/protest-power-trump-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mass protest surges against Trump and Musk, how can we show up as effectively as possible? On Saturday I was heartened to be one of millions of Americans who took to the streets in cities and towns across the United States to stand against \u201cthe most brazen power grab in modern history\u201d. While no &#8230; <a title=\"The power and pitfalls of protest: how to speak out without falling victim to Trump\u2019s playbook | Jonathan Smucker\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-power-and-pitfalls-of-protest-how-to-speak-out-without-falling-victim-to-trumps-playbook-jonathan-smucker\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The power and pitfalls of protest: how to speak out without falling victim to Trump\u2019s playbook | Jonathan Smucker\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}