To redirect revolutionary energy from destroying to the system to just criticizing Trump. It is a way for them to gain popular support and show themselves as anti-establishment instead of the bourgeoisie that they are who need to be overthrown
paying for a one page ad in a newspaper is not the same as "paying for a protest".
I paid money to buy posterboard and magic markers to make a sign. Does that mean the "protests was paid" by me?
That's somewhat true, but also the vast majority of financing for Indivisible, who organized these protests, came from billionaires foundations. These protests would never have happened without them.
Indivisible "reports 73 percent of its funding came in the form of “major gifts” or from foundations. Additionally, it reports that one of its donors consisted of 23 percent of its funding", from https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-indivisible-project-indivisible
Besides all that, if a billionaire is backing it, it's sort of a sign that it's quite a centrist movement.
Telling that these grievances all center around foreign policy and trade. "We uphold the commitments we make!" YOU can uphold the commitments YOU make with MY tax dollars, I'll just go and mind my own business.
If I were to feel inclined to fight in the streets, it would be over the unlawful deportation of my neighbors, the genocide my government is financing, or my right to live as a woman and love who I deem fit. Ukraine will simply never be on my list of priorities.
She also donated $30k to The Lincoln Project during the Cheetos' first term.
Yeah it was like headline news that she broke with her family to do it
None of the senior Walton's have endorsed Trump, and the family has quite famously given money to both sides. I haven't found any Waltons condemning Christy over this, though maybe they wouldn't publicize it. I don't think it's a huge break from the family.
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