Daily News | How Americans angry over abortion rights, guns can turn rage into a mass movement | Will Bunch
But amid the public rage, a growing sense of exasperation was also palpable at the protests, and on social media sites like Twitter. The rhythm of the protest marches, the fiery promises from Democratic Party officials — followed by political inertia — felt numbingly familiar to many.
A number of folks have expressed a burning desire to do something to fight back against the growing clout of America’s right-wing minority. But they said they weren’t sure where to focus that energy — unconventional protest and civil disobedience, or traditional electoral politics ... or into something else?to ask readers about their feelings and frustrations over political activism in a post-United States.
Jessica Korpacz, a 32-year-old editor based in Exton, told me she’s anxious to get involved and attended her first Democratic meeting after the Supreme Court ruling, but that she has a hard time approaching strangers. She added that “donating doesn’t satiate my feeling of ‘doing something’ [because] I can’t give much.”
There’s little doubt that a series of political bombshells in mid-2022 has somewhat altered the political landscape heading into a crucial midterm election. We’ve had months of speculation about a GOP “wave” fueled by a mix of historical trends, runaway gas prices, and President Biden’s unpopularity. But now the run of unpopular Supreme Court rulings, mass shootings, and revelations about Donald Trump’s attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, has energized many Democratic voters.
But at the same time, there is a growing vexation with the notion that conventional Election Day politics can solve America’s much deeper problems, with a right-wing Supreme Court seemingly locked in for decades to come and with structural issues — the undemocratic nature of the Senate and the Electoral College — baking in minority rule by an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party.
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