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Now if only those same 4-6 million people would go on general strike until the government is forced to resign and trigger new elections.
Unrealistic. No politician is going to voluntarily give up their job. Instead aim for making them quake in their boots and afraid they will lose their job in a year and a half if they don't hold Trump accountable for his constitutional violations. Make them oust Mike Johnston as Speaker and elect someone less radical at the very least.
Edit: all that is needed is for a handful of Republicans to defect from the party line and it's kowtow to Trump. Oh, and for the Democrats to stop cowering in the corner and step up to do their fucking job. Not sure which is the harder prospect.
The movement is getting larger and louder each cycle. Protests like this dont bring down the government directly, but are demonstration that a movement has support
Agreed. I think a lot of people in light red and purple areas probably had my same experience of being really surprised at the amount of support there was. The occupy protest in my city was like three dudes in two tents. The No Kings protests stretched for three city blocks and we got a ton of enthusiastic responses (and only, like, three counter protests that I saw) from people driving through. I never ever would have imagined that kind of turnout and support in this town, and I found myself feeling really encouraged that there's a lot more local support for resisting this bullshit than I estimated.