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Occupy didn't make the news past 2011, and BLM protesters weren't fully adopting "abolish/defund the police" as a core of their platform in 2014. And even then the fact that Occupy was advertising to a broad-based 99% and not a scared, confused 60% (Democratic voters) says a lot.
But Sanders-style social democracy was never actually as popular as Occupy made it out be. I think Trump actually managed to pick up quite a few of the more conspiracy-minded "burn it all down" types who could have gotten on board with Occupy five years earlier.
Occupy didn't make the news past 2011, and BLM protesters weren't fully adopting "abolish/defund the police" as a core of their platform in 2014. And even then the fact that Occupy was advertising to a broad-based 99% and not a scared, confused 60% (Democratic voters) says a lot.
But Sanders-style social democracy was never actually as popular as Occupy made it out be. I think Trump actually managed to pick up quite a few of the more conspiracy-minded "burn it all down" types who could have gotten on board with Occupy five years earlier.