April 2, 2026

It is estimated that at least one and a half million Americans took part in one of 3,000 events that took place this weekend.

With a raspy and rather agitating voice, Bruce Springsteen seems to have resurrected the voice of Bob Dylan from the sixties. It’s hard to understand how you can make a folk song out of the resistance to a president. Up to now, we thought the most standard way was to vote against him. Springsteen has apparently found another way.

Following that act, we see Reverend Al Sharpton and actor Robert De Niro walking in together holding a sign that says we protect democracy and people, not billionaires, and we protect our neighbors. When De Niro did speak, he obviously attacked Donald Trump. You would think after all of that exuberance that he’d know exactly what he was going to say, but he didn’t. He had to read it off his cheat sheet.

 

Over the weekend, a staggering 1.5 million Americans flooded into 3,000 protest events nationwide, sparked by Bruce Springsteen’s gritty, Dylan-esque folk anthem against the president—an unexpected twist on resistance beyond the ballot box. The spectacle intensified when Reverend Al Sharpton and Robert De Niro marched side by side, brandishing signs championing democracy over billionaires, though De Niro faltered while reading his scripted attack on Trump. Yet, despite the star power and passion, most protests fell flat with dull chants and some of the worst protest music this country has heard, hardly the tough resistance America would need in a crisis. Among the crowd, “Stop the War in Iran” signs surfaced, hinting at a troubling faction that bizarrely supports a nation known for its nuclear brinkmanship. The weekend showcased a massive but deeply fractured opposition—loud, sprawling, and not quite battle-ready.

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