I know you’re probably referring to Occupy. In the aftermath of the 2019 protests in my country I’ve paid a little more attention to the regret in the voices of people who were a part of Occupy. How they thought at the time, how the politics of different participants evolved. I see a lot of parallels there and I don’t think I’m equipped to really get any insight out of that for the future.

I don’t think it’s a uniquely American thing. Sometimes middle income people who are somewhat insulated from the worst of the system will have a reason to hit the streets. As a controlled fizzle-out of revolution sure it’s something that can never work. But it does break political taboos and exposes dynamics normally buried beneath the weight of “day-to-day” politics. Beirut 2019-2020 was a massive failure, a joke of a protest movement. Some people believably claim it’s the only time 1/5th of the population of a country protested with zero material political change. But I felt like I learned a lot about the social fabric of the country, about the state’s relationship with society, about how old civil war grudges still echo when I thought they wouldn’t.

Or maybe you’re talking about the 2020 protests in the US. Dancing cops etc. I got nothing for you there chief