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adjl posted...

It's not even just that he lost, they're protesting because they believe he should be above prosecution for crimes he's committed. They don't believe he's innocent, just that he shouldn't face any consequences that might interfere with his ability to act as their messiah.

Side note: Apparently there are 3.54 million truckers in the US. Even if every single one of them were on board with this (and they aren't), that's not very many millions. This is "one million moms" (actually about 10k) all over again.

True story: my uncle (a retired trucker) worked with a guy named Bill Coleman, who was NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt's maternal uncle. They looked scarily alike, except Bill's hair was lighter (when I met him for the first time, I said "You look a lot like Dale", he just grinned and said "Naw, Dale looks like me, I was here first.") He was the first person to inform me that Dale was a lot less conservative than most of his fans would have thought. Perhaps the most famous story is that, he had a black housekeeper who one day asked him why he had a Confederate flag in his house, and told him what it represented to Black Americans. He yanked it off the wall, trashed it, and apologized to her on the spot.