The truth is that, unfortunately, there was not much anyone could do within legal parameters in the US. It’s depressing and grim but it is the truth. Protests were going to work just as much as May Day marches were going to result in the US going full communism, which is to say that they were never going to work. In the US, even BDS is becoming criminalized. Most we could do is continue to agitate and use it to organize others.

That being said, if someone did what they could to oppose it and were against it then I don’t think any particular guilt rests on them. A working class individual with no power will be severely limited. It would be like blaming someone who worked at a grocery store in Nazi Germany for the Holocaust. What could they really have done beyond what they were able? We should avoid getting to the point of White/Westoid Savior Complex. As others said, the only way to really stop it is with the end of the US Empire and a radically different form of state. If we are organizing for this and aiming our praxis towards communism then we are doing our individual part as best as we could, in my opinion.

Respect to some comrades in the UK, etc., who took it further though.