The Protests and the Politicians Are Afraid of Us

Even republican politicians who don't need black votes and whose base tends not to sympathize with causes like police reform are afraid of the protesters. Because they recognize that there's an economic dimension to the protest, which spills over into key voters that they need to win elections. So while republicans like trump, or senators like tom cotton and william gates, are calling for the army to come in and start shooting people to death and locking them up for years and years,. a growing number of g o p senators want the government to extend and augment unemployment benefits that are set to run out on tens of millions of people soon. That he never uses.