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They’re quite easy to spot in public, especially on the subway. Who are they? They are the tired and worn-out socialist activists in weather-beaten jeans, t-shirts, calico or plaid shirts with the sleeves rolled up and dumpy hair frazzled in knots or bunched up behind blue kerchief sweatbands.

What I’m describing here are mostly the women activists, but you get it.

When I spotted this group on Philadelphia’s Frankford-Market line on Saturday, April 5 headed to City Hall for an anti-Trump Hands-off 2025 rally, I tried not to stare. The vibe I was getting from them was ‘worker-solidarity,’ or the lefty activist high I recall feeling when I was 21 and marching with 1971 progressives. After that rally, the local news stations reported that thousands of anti-Trump protestors had swarmed the area around City Hall.

Lefty activists inspired by these numbers gloated on social media afterwards, believing that a true revolution brewing.

“The tide is turning,” they said. “People are waking up.”

There isn’t a revolution brewing, of course. Or, put another way: there’s always a revolution brewing in Philadelphia.

The people on Philly streets protesting Trump are really the activist (spiritual) descendents of Philadelphia’s murderer-activist Ira Einhorn, the so-called co-founder of Earth Day and a countercultural hero to gullible hippies and the city’s Democrat elite until it was discovered that he had murdered his girlfriend, Holly Maddux in 1977 and stuffed her body in a trunk and kept it in his West Philadelphia apartment.

Einhorn was a one-man genius con job who was able to mesmerize or hypnotize people to do his bidding. This pretty much describes the Democrat machine in Philadelphia.

The City of Philadelphia exists in a political bubble where woke politicians and left-thinking robots rule.

Call a demonstration protesting Trump and you’re guaranteed 2,000 protesters any day of the week. Yes, the Trump hatred is that thick; yes, the activists are that fanatical. These are the same grunge armies that marched (and rioted) for George Floyd in 2020; the same grunge haters that paraded and celebrated on Center City streets in 2020 when Trump lost to Biden.

Look at them closely and you’ll discover that some are wealthy elite liberals-members of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Franklin Inn Club, the Barnes Foundation, the National Constitution Center and the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America – who live in large stone mansions in Chestnut Hill but love getting up in jeans and “fighting” activist wear whenever there’s a new demonstration to show their hatred for Donald Trump.

For Philadelphia conservatives (Republicans), the situation is exasperating and close to hopeless.

Meanwhile, the Washington DC April 5 Handsoff 2025 rally included speakers like Maryland’s Rep. Jamie Rasken and Graa Martinez Rosas, Executive Director of something called United We Dream Action which purports to fight for immigrants (as in illegal immigrants).

At that rally, Rosas introduced herself as a proud queer undocumented immigrant (notice to ICE!) who had the nerve to talk about “our country” (meaning the USA) as she joined other speakers in saying, “Our numbers are growing,” which of course is what all these activists love to say, deluded as they are in thinking that the tide is turning against Trump and that very soon a revolution will send Elon Musk and Donald Trump packing. (Or worse, as some even “pray” for their assassination).

On May Day of this year the same Philadelphia mob jammed Center City for an International Workers’ Day protest with a special appearance by Bernie Sanders.

May Day of course is one of the most important holidays in communist countries. China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos and North Korea all celebrate May Day with religious-like fervor. In the United States, the holiday is traced to 1886 when a labor strike for an eight-hour workday resulted in a bomb explosion in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, killing several people. In Europe May Day has pagan roots; it marks the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice.

There were many May Day anti-Trump protests throughout the country, as each big blue city comes equipped with its own horde of bedbug lefty activists ready to crawl out of hiding to show how much they hate Trump. Organizers framed these rallies with a somewhat polite phraseology: pushback against the assault on labor protections, diversity initiatives and federal employees. There was also a lot of talk about the evil doings of billionaires and the treatment of immigrants (the word ‘illegal’ is not in their vocabulary).

The May Day anti-Trumpers in Philadelphia included members of the AFL-CIO-diehard Democrat loyalists-and the “call up” activists described above who gathered in their ratty clothing and swarmed like locusts around Philadelphia City Hall-proof that the Trump regime is about to be toppled!-as at least 70 to 100 of them were arrested for sitting down at the intersection of Broad and Vine Streets blocking traffic in an already congested city; selfish, careless anarchists with only one goal in mind: to disrupt, by any means possible, the orderly tempo of a civilized society.

Talk about a tired and worn-out scenario.

On social media after the May Day demos activists gloated as they had done after the April anti-TrumpHandsoff 2025 rally: people are seeing the light, they said, when really it was just the same old activists, plus the labor unions, blowing their horns.

Philadelphia’s 6 ABC reported:

“While the demonstration was intended to be peaceful, it led to the blockage of a major roadway, causing significant traffic disruptions and creating safety concerns for both protestors and motorists. Officers on the scene issued multiple warnings instructing participants to clear the highway.”

Photographs of the protesters showed thin soy boy men draped in Palestinian scarves, Palestinian flags, signs reading “Stop the deportations,” and so forth. There were trans activists and BLM activists and just plain old pot bellied Democrat cronies in baseball hats.

It was cornucopia of leftist causes, an orgasm of political intersectionality.

In what to me read like a nostalgic blast from 1969, CNN quoted an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation:

“Our enemies are not international students that organize on their campus. Our enemies are not undocumented workers that contribute to their communities, that pay taxes and can’t get services. Our enemies are not workers that work for corporations.”

“No – this racist, sexist, anti-worker, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic system is our enemy.”

This statement alone is proof why this revolution will never get off the ground. You can’t recycle these tried old tropes and expect the larger society to ever take you seriously.