New York Times: In Trump’s Second Term, Far Right Agenda Enters Mainstream

What is there to protest?

The only thing that comes to mind is that the Trump administration is subservient to Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel, but that point is being made and rapidly gaining ground without street activism. Pretty much all the large alt media platforms – Infowars, Breaking Points, Tucker – hammer Israel every day. There is no one left who is going to be persuaded to dislike Israel because of street activism.

New York Times:

“During President Trump’s first turn in the White House, right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys were on the streets, weekend after weekend, raising their voices — and oftentimes their fists — about issues such as immigration, the squelching of conservative speech and the removal of Confederate-era statues.

But in the first seven months of Mr. Trump’s second term, there has been a conspicuous absence of far-right demonstrations. And that, some leaders of the movement say, is because the president has effectively adopted their agenda.

“Things we were doing and talking about in 2017 that were taboo, they’re no longer taboo — they’re mainstream now,” said Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, who took part in many of those early far-right rallies. “Honestly, what do we have to complain about these days?” …

Last week, in fact, on the eighth anniversary of the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where neo-Nazis marched by torchlight chanting about immigrants and Jews, Augustus Sol Invictus, a Florida lawyer who helped organize the event, marveled at how thoroughly the Trump administration had adopted a position that had once been on the fringes of political discourse.

“Eight years ago you were an extremist if you protested being replaced by immigrants,” Mr. Invictus wrote on social media. “Your life was over if you talked about stopping or reversing it. Now it is official @WhiteHouse policy.” …”

2017 was different.

In 2017, it felt like we had won a huge victory, but the old guard of the Republican Party was still in charge, which is why all that populist energy spilled out into the streets. We also learned our lessons about the downsides and vulnerabilities of engaging in street activism to “own the libs.”