Slop.

I think the protests fall into a few distinct categories:

You've got small town ones, which are essentially entirely grassroots and politically pretty soft. They're still a good thing, because they are composed of people who basically have never taken any political action before. It's progress, just starting from a very low baseline

Then there are two city variants defined by the contest between the libs and the left. Either the libs have won via Indivisible and other components of the Dem machine quickly activating, or the left (embodied by PSL in most cities where there's been some success here) successfully anticipating this movement and laying the organizational groundwork and earning the legitimacy to determine the political line and tenor. In big east coast cities, the Dem machine is powerful and mostly succeeded. In the midwest and mountain states, PSL has had far more success. I can't really speak to the situation on the west coast, and these are all just trends with lots of exceptions.

This but unironically. Jack's basically channeling Lenin's ghost lol

This but unironically

I am in fact good as hell at organizing, because I have on multiple occassions the last three months taken all the energy the Dems wanted to redirect into their machine and directed into a revolutionary one. My PSL branch has put on four large 50501 protests with thousands of attendees each, and every single one we have been extremely explicit about our politics to excellent popular reception. If I hadn't done that, all those people would've just been listening to some Dem council person telling them to vote for Chuck Schumer or whatever.

best organizer I ever worked like was like this, I hated working with the guy sometimes because he was gruff and sharp like this guy is being but he got shit done so I never complained

did really wear on me though...

To what end? I am essentially already a public figure in my city. Anybody can dox me as much as they want.