Yeah, But…!

Maddow: 'When you command people to protest for you and they don’t, what does that say about you?'https://t.co/YLFpnk6DIQ

— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 4, 2023

"You might remember what Trump first said when he announced to the country that he believed he would be indicted and arrested. Do you remember what his first statement was? He had a declarative demand to his supporters he said, 'Protest. Take our nation back. We must save America! Protest, protest, protest.' ... That didn't happen. That was a couple of weeks ago now, when Trump first said that he would be arrested. He demanded that his supporters get out to the streets, that they protest in response to the threat to arrest him. That did not happen. Nobody protested."

Lone wolves! Insurrectionists! Empty G! SCARY PEOPLE!!!

Booga-booga-booga!

A handful showed up and waved flags at Mar-a-Lago, but it wasn't anything that constituted an 'event' by any stretch of the imagination," Maddow explained. "We've had headline after headline after headline that everybody is bracing for mass protests by supporters. It's not happening. At least, so far, it's not happening. And that in itself is an interesting political fact, a known outcome. He specifically called on his supporters to come out on his behalf to save America. 'Protest, protest, protest.'"

In the’60’s the question was: “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” Now the question is: what if they called for a protest and nobody was interested? More to the point, does anyone expect a roiling mass of people on the ark of Manhattan tomorrow? (50 people showed up at Trump Tower today.)

Maddow continued: "I mean, it's one thing for people not to come out and protest in your defense ... but when you specifically ask them to? When you, in fact, command them to and they don't? What does that say about you?"

Maybe we can ask MTG tomorrow. 😈