The Tesla Takedown movement’s “Global Day of Action” on Saturday was, to its credit, mostly peaceful. But that’s only if you don’t count the placard-waving protesters doing the electric slide in the Seattle streets as an assault on aesthetics. 

Cringe scenes such as this played out in cities across America over the weekend. In Los Angeles, around 100 protesters, mostly middle-aged white people in REI gear, rallied outside a service center wielding signs such as “Save Democracy” and “No Fascist America.”