Election Day is less than six months away, and voters have a familiar choice of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Unless it’s The Godfather Part II, sequels rarely live up to the hype. Although it may look like a 2020 repeat, the stars are competing in a different game, under different rules. This series, ‘Judgment Day: Why 2024 rematch won’t be any old sequel, investigates the key differences from 2020. Part Two is on the changes in the protest movement that have hurt Biden’s campaign.

As Black Lives Matter protests took hold across the nation four years ago, Democrats rushed to embrace the fury that erupted in major cities and found common cause with them.