Protest and Protesters

Way back in 2004 when I was getting a PhD studying social movements, I wrote the below in response to sneering at anti-war protests as incoherent and unfocused. I’m re-posting it because sneering at protest is apparently cool again,1 according to this guy at The American Prospect who doesn’t have scintilla of evidence to his claim that recent No Kings protests are a) run by old people instead of by youths as the 60s showed to be Right and True, and b) ineffective because young people have too...