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发布时间：2025-09-11 10:11:42 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：热点

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Democrats mocked for fleeing to Illinois in protests of Texas' redistricting effort

OutKick founder Clay Travis joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss his reaction to Democrats going to Illinois as Texas attempts to redistrict areas of the state while other blue state governors push to redraw their own maps. 

No one protests more than a Democrat. I’ve watched the ritual a hundred times and lived it. Friends gather in parks with paint and markers. Group chats light up: "where to meet, what’s the route, loop here or there, lunch before or after." In the first Trump term, if you lived in D.C., protest became background noise. Sit at a café on Massachusetts Avenue and a march would drift by at some point. The metric became volume, how loud you could scream, how much emotion you could muster.

I marched too. I walked the National Mall with friends for Black Lives Matter, chanting until my voice went hoarse. I told myself two things could be true: the police were there to protect our right to be present and the system had failed too many Black families. But then I waited — for the screaming at town halls to make people listen more, for the road blockades to convert attention into persuasion. And somewhere between all the signs and hashtags, things began to blur. One day it was emissions, the next it was health care, then DACA, then women’s rights. The emotional charge stayed high, but the focus was lost.

Meanwhile, we mistook visibility for victory. Year after year, we repainted the same slogans, shifted from one moral emergency to the next and policed one another’s language along the way. We argued over the newest required terms, prosecuted by association and offered little grace for mistakes. We admired the huge crowds in coastal cities and forgot the quiet sidewalks in places that actually decide elections. We celebrated noise and forgot that voting booths don’t measure volume.

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