{"id":566,"date":"2025-06-22T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canoeinstructor.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:05:40","slug":"schrader-what-would-it-actually-take-for-protesters-to-force-trump-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canoeinstructor.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/schrader-what-would-it-actually-take-for-protesters-to-force-trump-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Schrader: What would it actually take for protesters to force Trump to resign?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo Kings\u201d protests have come and gone<\/a>, and President Donald Trump is still in the White House where he is a danger to our economy, a threat to our freedoms, an ally to our enemies and a constant source of lies and misinformation.<\/p>\n

What would it take for protests to be effective six months into a presidency that is being used to consistently breach the constitutional limits of the executive branch of government?<\/p>\n

\"Protesters
Protesters demonstrate against Ricardo Rossello, the Governor of Puerto Rico, near where police are manning a barricade set up along a street leading to the governor's mansion on July 20, 2019 in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. There have been calls for the Governor to step down after it was revealed that he and top aides were part of a private chat group that contained among other messages misogynistic and homophobic messages. (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The answer may lie in the 2019 Puerto Rican Revolution — an event that was not a revolution but an inspiring display of the power Americans hold in our free and open democracy.<\/p>\n

By the time protests peaked in Old San Juan, more than a million people had taken to the streets, spending days and nights banging pots and pans, reading the Constitution aloud, and chanting the simple demand that the governor resign.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, he did.<\/p>\n

\"Protesters
Protesters are seen on the water in personal water craft next to the governors mansion as they protest against Ricardo Rossello, the Governor of Puerto Rico on July 19, 2019 in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Some of the protesters were playing loud Bad Buddy music from speakers. There have been calls for the Governor to step down after it was revealed that he and top aides were part of a private chat group that contained misogynistic and homophobic messages. (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gov.\u00a0Ricardo Rossell\u00f3 Nevares resigned in disgrace, leaving La Fortaleza \u2013 the oldest governor\u2019s mansion in the United States \u2013 along with key members of the cabinet who had already left saying they felt a \u201cmoral obligation to resign.\u201d Both external (the protests) and internal (talk of an impeachment process) pressures weighed on Nevares, but there\u2019s no doubt that if the public had remained on the sidelines, Nevares would have remained in office.<\/p>\n

\"Demonstrators
..Demonstrators walk down the Las Americas Expressway, the biggest highway in Puerto Rico as part of a massive march on July 22, 2019 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There have been calls for the Governor to step down after it was revealed that he and top aides were part of a private chat group that contained among other messages misogynistic and homophobic messages. (Photo by Angel Valentin\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The protests were substantially peaceful, although small skirmishes resulting in arrests, damage to property and injuries broke out when police tried to disperse the crowd with rubber bullets and tear gas. At one point, an interstate was shut down by protesters, and government offices were sometimes inaccessible because of the crowds. Protesters also were creative, taking to the ocean in kayaks and boats after streets outside La Fortaleza were closed for what the government called \u201csecurity reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could what happened in Puerto Rico happen on the mainland? Could peaceful protests really oust a man who took office with the support of a majority of American voters and who rules the Republican Party with an iron fist?<\/p>\n