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The same thing happened in 2008/2009 after Obama got elected. The whole occupy wall st movement fizzled out, and Obama shut down OFA and let all the energy dissipate.
So it was, so it is, so it shall be
Occupy Wall St. was September thru November 2011
It was also aimless, without any stated goals or objectives.
They did the same with BLM. That’s something that was smart about the defund the police movement. By naming the movement about a specific action that Dems don’t want to do, they can’t co-opt it.
One of the best parts of trot theory is the concept of a transitional demand, a demand that looks completely achievable and reasonable, but that capital finds so threatening (since it would render them unstable) that liberal parties can't even pretend to support it.