“The No Kings turnout was significant, even if it didn’t reach a critical threshold,” Scott Galloway writes, adding, “When at least 3.5% of a country’s population actively engages in a peaceful
protest movement, it has always resulted in political change, according to Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist and professor at Harvard. Chenoweth analyzed 323 nonviolent and violent mobilizations
between 1900 and 2006, highlighting a range of campaigns, including the People Power movement against the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines in 1986; the Rose Revolution in 2003, in which the
people of Georgia ousted Eduard Shevardnadze; and an uprising in Sudan in 2019 that forced its president of 30 years, Omar al-Bashir, to step down. She also concluded that nonviolent campaigns are
twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent movements. Every senior – in every high school, in every country – should be forced to read the previous sentence 100 times.”