‘Night of Rage’ that never was

Aaron Sibarium
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NEW: We were promised a “Night of Rage” when Roe was overturned. But on Friday evening, there were only a few protesters outside Brett Kavanaugh’s home. The most militant of the bunch was an elderly woman brandishing a coat hanger—plastic, not metal.

Police watched as the protesters, many of them wearing surgical masks, chalked pro-choice slogans and marched back and forth with signs. The woman with a coathanger led the group in chants of “Liar, liar, pants on fire.”

At one point, the cops ordered Chinese food.

The protests outside Clarence Thomas’s home were not much different. Rather than acting enraged, most of the attendees —overwhelmingly white—banged on drums and sang what sounded like African-American spirituals. A mustachioed neighbor of Thomas’s observed nearby, cigar in mouth.

But with outrage over the decision diffused over months—and with no one in the D.C.-area affected by the ruling—the "Night of Rage" promised by the pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us never materialized.

That relative calm raises questions about how much the end of Roe v. Wade will energize Democratic voters in November. It also contrasts sharply with the extreme violence following the death of George Floyd, which resulted in hundreds of arrests in Washington, D.C., alone.

There were no protests around Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home. The most confrontational sign in sight was an "Arrest Fauci" t-shirt, worn by a middle-aged woman walking her terrier.

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