If Protests Didn't Work, They Wouldn't Be Working This Hard to Kill Them

How media cynicism and state crackdowns reveal the quiet power of sustained resistance

They keep telling you protests don’t work, that marching doesn’t change policy, that demonstrations “fizzle,” that nothing really happens once the crowd goes home. You hear it from cable panels, op-eds, and the same political voices who insist resistance is performative and pointless.

And yet — quietly, methodically, expensively — the state is behaving a…