After Tuesday’s nationwide walkout on January 20 delivered roughly the same measurable impact as a long lunch break, protest organizers are back – this time calling for another walkout on Friday, January 23.

The rapid repeat makes it clear that the goal isn’t real change but instead the hope of disruption and irritation – because if nothing else, irritating people trying to buy groceries, run businesses, and keep the economy moving is a guaranteed outcome. And if the first walkout didn’t work, the apparent thinking on the Left seems to be: try again three days later and hope annoyance magically turns into progress.

The performative and dismally attended “Free America” Walkout on January 20 was the same as all of the other protests that the Democrats do and checked all the familiar boxes – big signs and loud chants complaining about President Trump. The event marked the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump returning to the White House after being re-elected.

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Hundreds across Connecticut protested. HUNDREDS. Wow.

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The protest was organized primarily by groups like Women’s March, along with partners such as the 50501 group and others. The action called for people to walk out of work, school, and commerce at 2 PM local time as a form of protest and non-cooperation against what organizers described as authoritarian policies, including ICE raids, surveillance, attacks on civil liberties, and a plethora of other concerns.

But the protests did little to nothing to move the needle in showing that TDS Democrats walking out of things has any impact on the economy. All it did was piss off a few people trying to buy goods and services on what is usually a better and more convenient time to do so – on a Tuesday.

So now the leftists are trying to nationalize Minnesota’s planned “Day of Truth and Freedom” where faith leaders, union members and community groups in the state are calling for an economic blackout, urging people to skip work, school and shopping.

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The action is a response to the surge of ICE agents in Minnesota with organizers wanting to highlight its impact on immigrant communities and pressure officials over aggressive federal tactics.

The January 20 “Free America Walkout” was billed as a coast-to-coast uprising, complete with promises of mass noncompliance, tens of thousands of participants, and a dramatic halt to anything resembling normal life. Instead, it landed like a sluggish Tuesday punctuated by a few angry posts on X. Most workplaces stayed open, schools carried on, and stores remained busy. And most Americans didn’t even notice – or didn’t care. In the end, the only thing that didn’t show up in force was the disruption the agitators wanted to happen – perhaps because many of the loudest participants in the big Democrat cities who walked out didn’t even have a job to walk out of in the first place.

However…undeterred, the Leftist activists are now hoping January 23 hits differently. The messaging hasn’t changed. The demands haven’t changed. The strategy hasn’t changed. Only the calendar has. Calling a second walkout days after the first one fizzled isn’t exactly a show of momentum. It’s more like admitting the protest equivalent of, “Okay, but this time for real.”

Whether January 23 turns into anything meaningful remains to be seen. But so far, the walkout resistance team looks less like a real movement of power brokers and more like a rerun nobody asked for – same grievances, same tactics, same signs, same characters.

If walkouts are meant to showcase the Left’s power, scheduling another one days after the first fizzled only underscores the opposite. When the country keeps working, shopping, and going about its business without missing a beat, the protest isn’t a warning shot – it’s background noise. And calling for repeat performances doesn’t make it louder. It just makes it easier to ignore, especially when they keep happening one after another.