The Activists Are Winning This Time. Why?

Описание: Please join me on Substack! https://brendanmiller.substack.com/ Free emails when I post videos, as well as interesting links from around the internet. Plus, for paid tiers to get behind-the-scenes notes and videos, filmmaking tutorials and other goodies.
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/brenkjm.bsky...
Twitter:   / brenkjm  

January 2026 may end up being a turning point.

ICE flooded Minneapolis in the biggest enforcement operation in U.S. history. Two civilians — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — were killed by federal agents. The White House tried to brand the backlash as the work of “paid agitators”.

It failed.

This video explains why protests in Minnesota actually forced Trump to retreat — and what it shows about when protest works, when it backfires, and why the idea that “protests are pointless” is wrong.

KEY SOURCES:
Brilliant article profiling the organisers in Minneapolis https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202...
Good Economist article on same topic ($) https://www.economist.com/united-stat...
Good video from WSJ on organizers    • How Minneapolis Is Fighting ICE’s Enforcem...  
Waging a Good War by Thomas E Ricks - very good on the strategy of civil rights
Good write up on the Walter Gadsden photo https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2...
BLM support fell to around 50% https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-...
Decline in support on immigration https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-is...
In this Quinnipiac poll, 82 percent of respondents said they’d seen video of the incident https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?rele...