Trump has been able to make so much headway against the constitutional system because the institutions that are supposed to hold him in check have adopted the posture that it's savvy to let him have his way. Now millions of people are saying "Are you sure? An enormous number of us disagree."

If you can shatter the paralyzing consensus that Americans are somehow okay with this, that the majority of us endorse it, then some of the many mechanisms in society that are supposed to stop someone like Trump, which thus far have been frozen in place, or even helping him, might re-engage.

The polls and numbers show THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM - but that doesn't feel real and visceral to our institutions, which imagine a silent MAGA majority hiding under their bed.

You know what feels real? Ten million people in the streets, saying "Look around, THERE ARE MORE OF US"

This me, here in Tokyo. #CaptainAmerica

And what I'm describing is actually a weakness on the left: We do believe that if we could just make people *understand,* they'd agree.

They don't care about shared understanding on the right. They believe in power.

We could learn from how they do things and it's not the art of persuasion.

/2 But here's what people like Charlie Kirk know:
It doesn't matter who the shooter actually was. It doesn't matter what their motives actually were. They can lie about it, propagandize it, deny it, and their audience will eat it up. And the legacy media will both-sides it in response.