Party pooper here
The protest is completely insignificant, if not a backfire. It's face time, some venting, some humor (the most effective part) and copious quantities of oxytocin in the air. But it will be forgotten by Wednesday.
A protest might mean something practically and politically if you could get some sort of metric about the protesters. I'm not sure we have the technology for that yet. To win elections solidly, I think the Democratic Party would want to see a representation metric (for the protest) of true voters who care about true issues and what those issues are. That would be how you would judge the protest statistically in my opinion. Raw counts don't matter.
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