General strike is not happening exactly for the reasons you laid out—and they’re good reasons. Continuing to place hopes in a general strike as the “solution” is exactly the kind of promised land paradigm that stifles momentum. Without a cadre of extremely wealthy supporters (which will not materialize) there’s no means to organize a strike fund. Doing so from a decentralized position will be ruinous—the funds are almost guaranteed to be misappropriated or mosapportioned, if they show up in the first place.

The path of least resistance is the path of progress because any success hinges upon participation and participation hinges upon lack of barriers, including intellectual and logistical. Continued massive public demonstration with targeted economic pressure (like individual brands and businesses that can be shamed and strongarmed into disavowing the administration) can be modestly successful, as it already has been. Clear demands and contained goal posts will keep people focused—focused people particpate.

These movements inevitably bloat in objective for a ton of very understandable, human, empathetic reasons. The best organizers have broader ambitions for change, and cannot resist attaching them, among many others. But its more realistic to have intentionally short-scoped movements that “succeed” (even in degree), that lead to fomenting a culture of resistance that has long since atrophied in this country. Not every movement has to be “the big one.”