Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 11

We are talking about history very crudely, but to be slightly more detailed, one reason that the Civil Rights movement was effective is that it put pressure on LBJ to do civil rights legislation before the other things he wanted to do. It probably wouldn't have worked against a President Goldwater, or if there weren't still a lot liberal Republicans back then that were gettable with pressure from northern religious leaders.

Addressing this seperatly, We are a bit, but I dug through the Wikipedia article as a refresher. Non-violent protest certainly laid a foundation. But change did not get enacted until violent actions started backing up that foundation.

JFK had introduced the civil rights bill to congress in June of 1963. It was still languishing in congress as of March 1964, which is when Malcom X broke ties with Nation of Islam and began to lend support to any movement that supported black nationalism and self-defense.

LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2nd, over a year later, after the following events occurred (copied and paraphrased from WP):

• [In response to KKK killings], St. Augustine [civil rights] movement practiced armed self-defense in addition to nonviolent direct action. In June 1963, Hayling publicly stated that "I and the others have armed. We will shoot first and answer questions later. We are not going to die like Medgar Evers." When Klan nightriders terrorized black neighborhoods in St. Augustine, Hayling's NAACP members often drove them off with gunfire. In October 1963, a Klansman was killed.
• The repression of sit-ins in Jacksonville, Florida, provoked a riot in which black youth threw Molotov cocktails at police. Malcom X then gave a speech in April 1964, "The Ballot or the Bullet", Malcolm presented an ultimatum to white America: "There's new strategy coming in. It'll be Molotov cocktails this month, hand grenades next month, and something else next month. It'll be ballots, or it'll be bullets."
• In 1964, a series of almost nightly protests brought chaos to Chester [PA] as protestors argued that the Chester School Board had de facto segregation of schools. The mayor of Chester, James Gorbey, issued "The Police Position to Preserve the Public Peace", a ten-point statement promising an immediate return to law and order. The city deputized firemen and trash collectors to help handle demonstrators. The State of Pennsylvania deployed 50 state troopers to assist the 77-member Chester police force. The demonstrations were marked by violence and charges of police brutality.

The teachings of the Civil Rights Act in US schools immensely downplays the roles violence played in bookending the actual progression of the movements. If not for the violence taken in 1963-1968, we would still be fighting these issues today. In fact, the Black Panthers were the target of much counter-intelligence and suppression, and their 10-point program was:

1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
2. We want full employment for our people.
3. We want an end to the robbery by the Capitalists of our Black Community.
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
6. We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
8. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
9. We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.

How many of those bullet points have been accomplished since, despite the continuing call for it?

looks like this election will end Trumpism

I seriously doubt this. The conditions that brought about "Trumpism" still exist. Trump's agenda largely fell in line with the broader Republican agenda. The Republicans had a chance to oust Trump and replace with Pence and they did not take it.

They will use "Trump was the bad guy" rhetoric as the shield for their broader agenda, while simultaneously fighting against undoing any of the changes Trump made.

Trump is not an anomaly, he is the byproduct of 36+ years of Republican agenda and the propaganda networks to build support for that agenda.