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Originally Posted by Niamh.
Just because he has millions of people who voted for him doesn't mean that there are millions of people willing to risk their lives/careers/imprisonment to go protest for him
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Indeed; the majority will be habitual Red Voters who have and will always vote Republican, rather than Trump stans. There ARE millions of Trump stans but what percentage of those are willing to put themselves on the line at all? And then, of those, what percentage have the staying power to not run home when it gets real? Personal survival instinct is strong.
Don't get me wrong I think there will be very real clashes, I imagine the number is still in the tens-of-thousands, but the streets will not be lined by millions.
There's a reason the "same faces" crop up in the pictures of various clashes at various times... the same groups of activists have a heavy presence and create the illusion that there are "people everywhere" when in reality the same people are travelling around a lot.