IN CLEVELAND, LONELY PROTESTERS MARCHED THROUGH EMPTY STREETS.
July 22 2016
ORGANIZERS FOR THE Stand Together Against Trump rally in Cleveland had planned for 5,000 participants. The march, a peaceful demonstration that “America’s fundamental ideals of liberty and equality are greater than Trump’s incessant scapegoating and bullying,” was supposed to close out a week that some had predicted would overshadow the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, which came amid nationwide civil unrest and race riots and exploded in violence.
But there was no mayhem in Cleveland.
On Thursday, hours before Donald Trump took the stage to accept the nomination, a couple hundred people showed up for what had been expected to be one of the week’s largest events. The event did in fact turn out to be one of the largest in a series of relatively unimpressive ones — a fitting end to the massive protests that never werehttps://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/in-cleveland-lonely-protesters-marched-through-an-empty-wasteland/.
July 22 2016
ORGANIZERS FOR THE Stand Together Against Trump rally in Cleveland had planned for 5,000 participants. The march, a peaceful demonstration that “America’s fundamental ideals of liberty and equality are greater than Trump’s incessant scapegoating and bullying,” was supposed to close out a week that some had predicted would overshadow the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, which came amid nationwide civil unrest and race riots and exploded in violence.
But there was no mayhem in Cleveland.
On Thursday, hours before Donald Trump took the stage to accept the nomination, a couple hundred people showed up for what had been expected to be one of the week’s largest events. The event did in fact turn out to be one of the largest in a series of relatively unimpressive ones — a fitting end to the massive protests that never werehttps://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/in-cleveland-lonely-protesters-marched-through-an-empty-wasteland/.
