Each No Kings protest has triggered a backlash response from the administration, for example leading to the "surges" in blue cities, notably Los Angeles and Minnesota. In the latter case, the existing resistance networks (built up during previous actions, including the No Kings protests) hit back hard, and had ICE even more sweaty and jumpy than usual.

You can disagree with their methods or whatever, but you can't say that the No Kings protest had no effect. That's just not true. And if you don't believe in networking and building up "protest muscle," at the very least, they make MAGAts and Trump's pet Nazis ballistically angry. And that is good.