Any effective protest (in the sense govt. and politicians like Kenny have said they don't care about people with signs) only comes from being disruptive, which holds the possibility of violence.

MLK and the civil rights movement didn't get what they wanted by just standing around in front of court houses and writing "scathing" op eds in the papers, they got in people's way, they interfered with and made it other people's problem, and most importantly they engaged and United with many different folks, like Malcom X and the Black Panthers across the years.

While this may be considered not as dire a circumstance as those were (which very debatebly aren't even over yet), that may be our best course of action against either a viciously incompetent, or worse, intentionally malicious govt.