The take that it’s a ‘Democratic party spectacle’ as the OP said is a very dumb statement.

Yep. From my experience of them I think people are really just looking for some new options.

Nice! It seems like these events might a good place for smaller parties to make their presence known to people. Maybe even get some new ones going!

Man you guys are trying really hard to delegeitimize this thing before it gets going. I just read MAGA had started posting to BlueSky. Guess they’re already here in Lemmy too…

LOL what? I was at both and this take on it is dumb. It is very grass roots. I saw American flags, both right side up and upside down, Mexican flags, Palestinian flags, LGBTQ flags, and more. No Democratic party flags. Yes, frogs, axolotls, spongebobs and Santa’s. You know, democracy.