Getting rid of authoritarian regimes requires denying them the ability to govern, or to control the streets. Very often it requires a refusal of the security forces to enforce their rule, in particular a refusal to use lethal force against opposition protesters when ordered.
That is a big ask. Meanwhile, disruption of the regime's key goals, like ICE's deportations, is as you say a key step along the way.
There may yet be an electoral offramp from the Trump regime, if the scale of protest and disruption in the face of regime actions is such that they don't dare to take the steps needed to make electoral change impossible. Like, arresting opposition politicians, closing down opposition media, etc. But therefore maintaining that electoral offramp crucially depends on the ability to mobilise mass disruptive protest.
I think the main weakness of the anti-genocide movement in the west is the inability to mobilise mass disruptive protest. Isolated disruption in the form of occupation of college buildings, one-day blockades of certain arms factories, acts of sabotage against same, but not nearly enough to compel governments to change course. Especially when, as in the Anglophone countries at least, the two main parties are broadly united (with some exceptions) in their support for genocide.
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No Sleep for ICE is an awesome idea.
Getting rid of authoritarian regimes requires denying them the ability to govern, or to control the streets. Very often it requires a refusal of the security forces to enforce their rule, in particular a refusal to use lethal force against opposition protesters when ordered.
That is a big ask. Meanwhile, disruption of the regime's key goals, like ICE's deportations, is as you say a key step along the way.
There may yet be an electoral offramp from the Trump regime, if the scale of protest and disruption in the face of regime actions is such that they don't dare to take the steps needed to make electoral change impossible. Like, arresting opposition politicians, closing down opposition media, etc. But therefore maintaining that electoral offramp crucially depends on the ability to mobilise mass disruptive protest.
I think the main weakness of the anti-genocide movement in the west is the inability to mobilise mass disruptive protest. Isolated disruption in the form of occupation of college buildings, one-day blockades of certain arms factories, acts of sabotage against same, but not nearly enough to compel governments to change course. Especially when, as in the Anglophone countries at least, the two main parties are broadly united (with some exceptions) in their support for genocide.