Eight million people are not a symptom
A Wall Street Journal op-ed dismissed eight million protesters as emotionally self-indulgent. I have some thoughts.
A piece ran in the Wall Street Journal this week with a thesis comparing the No Kings protests to “bad group therapy.” People gather, vent, validate each other, and go home. Nothing changes, he purports. The author is a therapist with a book coming out next month, and he uses the protests as his evidence that therapy culture has made Americans emotional…
