The president-elect’s first term brought a wave of protest. This time, visitors to New York’s Washington Square Park are struggling for energy to resist

Summary

Anti-Trump Americans, especially on the left, are showing a more subdued response to Trump’s 2024 reelection compared to the activism of 2016.

Exhaustion, disillusionment with repeated setbacks, and negative media coverage have led many to disengage from politics or shift focus to personal priorities.

Activist groups, like Women’s March, are planning protests but acknowledge lower enthusiasm and more localized efforts.

Experts suggest this “tune-out” may be a coping mechanism, with some hoping new, non-political participants will lead change.

Many feel drained but believe activism will eventually regain momentum.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

    I heard a rumor or two of people buying up hard drives.

    I’m wondering what the utility of extra hard drives represents in this context. Are people that reliant on the cloud?

    • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      21 days ago

      Guess people see things going in this country the way fascism usually goes, restriction of information and data, maybe even connectivity. I’d say nothing is off the table.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        I agree, but information and data, at least in their most vital form, can be expressed as text which is already small, further compressible, and easily stored more surreptitiously on microsd cards. All of Wikipedia is only like 22gb, and no one individual’s horde of info is likely to eclipse that volume.

        On the other hand, Wikimedia commons is orders of magnitude larger, and we did just see how brittle archive.org can be.