Which is odd.
America was a country literally founded on a protest, helped by, of all people, the French. They have such a wonderful protest heritage and then they collectively decided “nope, we are meek and love the billionaire boots on our necks and ruling class dicks in our asses”.
The country that invented gorilla warfare has lost every major war to it in the last 80 years.
BLM was planned as a peaceful protest— then the white supremacists showed up to break windows, set fires, and escalate the violence. As usual most of America fell for it because we fear black people more than we dislike fascism.
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/29/umbrella-man-white-supremacist-minneapolis/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremacists-rightwing-domestic-terror-2020