I wouldn't be in such a hurry to jump to conclusions about what they were doing 4-5 years ago, 50501 seems to be going the big tent route. Nonviolence and grievance with the government seemed to be the only requirements to be party to the protest.
I remember literal demands for concentration camps to imprison anyone who dared defy, disobey, and disrupt
I missed that part, going to chalk that up to the flashbangs and tear gas. Personally, I wasn't entirely comfortable with how statist many of the folks were but it was also a lot of people's first protest. Was nice to see folks taking the first baby steps to taking back their power, but there's still a lot of learning to be done.
His loudest critics just don't seem to see those issues the way I do.
That was kind of the essence of the protest, we didn't have to see eye to eye with one another , just had to have similar opinions of a couple billionaires.