Hi, I am from a country also undergoing protests right now, but a person very close to me is visiting the US. They joined the No Kings protest yesterday in NYC. And they told me there was no young people at all. The contrast with my country is kind of weird, young people mobilise all the time.
I’m ofc not pretending that yesterday’s NYC protest is an accurate characterisation of mobilisation in the entire country. But from photos I see it does seem a trend that the no kings mainly has middle aged and older people in it. I’m curious. Why?
I work in a very red area. At one point there was a no kings protest every Saturday morning for about 4 months, those did tend to be older people. Yesterday, the crowd that came was a much more diverse, much more lively crowd. Plenty of older people still, but skewed younger than usual.