Cory Booker at the moment filibustering at the senate as a protest against the whole trump administration . He is speaking for as long as he is physically able too, as stated by him in the CSPAN clip, https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/sen-cory-booker-d-nj-starts-speaking-in-senate-for-as-long-as-i-am-physically-able/5158775
Here is an article that states why he is on the senate floor if you need clarification https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-speech-trump-protest/index.html
He’s doing this for the exact same reason Bernie and AOC are - to generate headlines and display that people by and large are not okay with what the Trump administration is doing. There is nothing actually actionable from the rallies (or very, very little). And sadly at the moment there’s very little that can be done to actually stop Trump’s plans. It’s important therefore that Democrats continue to passionately, loyalty, and most importantly eye-catchingly continue to protest however they can.
This is more a play to take over Chuck Schumer’s role as Senate Minority Leader. Its one day in the news cycle, and it’s forgotten.
The MAGA Nazis aren’t afraid of some corporate Democrat with a history of appeasement. A crowd of 35,000 for Bernie and AOC scares the shit out of the Traitors far more.
A crowd here and there of 35,000 isn’t nearly enough. It needs to be crowds of hundreds of thousands in hundreds of places at once. And the only way you get there is a massive increase in faith that the elected Democrats will actually do something. This performance (because I will concede that it’s just a performance) is exactly the kind of act that increases that faith.
The bigger crowds have to start somewhere, amd this is a good start. Many people see crowds like that, and the next opportunity they get, they go, too. Also, people who have been told that MOST Americans are hard-right MAGA Nazis, see crowds like that, and start to realize they’re being lied to.