David S. Meyer, a sociologist and scholar of protest movements at the University of California, Irvine, said the organizers might have a point. “Everybody wants to tell an apocalyptic story where people turn out in the streets and the world changes,” he said. “Unfortunately, the world is more complicated than that. In real life, social change takes a long time.”

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