Lessig: The Supreme Court Must Unanimously Strike Down Trump's Ballot Removal

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20. Nothing has really changed - most of them still are.

The primary reason most of them showed up on January 6th was because Trump begged them to, and they assumed that since he was the president, there would be no ramifications. When that turned out to be nonsense and hundreds of them got arrested, they got a wake-up call.

Even the January 6th rally was a bit of a dud, in context. Trump had been imploring people to show up for a month, his cronies spent tons of time and money organizing, the permit was for 30,000 people, and AP estimated the crowd at roughly 10,000. Two thousand of them marched to the Capitol.

It seemed like a lot and they were certainly destructive, but in contrast, there were 50,000 people at the August 2021 March for Voting Rights on the anniversary of the original in 1963, which drew 250,000 or more. The 50k figure doesn't include the satellite marches that were organized by Al Sharpton and others.