You spend night after night outside the factory corralling the many newspeople trying to get inside stories, securing food and medicines for people inside the factory, and texting allies around the country to secure their support. Auto companies keep silent, an implicit statement of support to the occupying workers. A CNN interview inside the factory shows workers dutifully caring for the factory equipment and producing U.S.-made electric vehicles.
This creates a bad look for Trump. He looks anti-U.S. jobs. Trump won’t back down. At 3 am he posts: “WE ARE NOT A BANANA REPUBLIC! FOLLOW THE LAW!!!” And 3:30am: “FIGHT BACK #WEWILLWIN”. And at 4 am: “TERRORISTS SHOULD BE SHOT.”
The next morning you scramble, calling as many people as you can. People got the memo. Thousands of people flock to the factory, worried about violent counter-protestors. Throngs of people surround factory entrances.
Intending to shut it all down the next morning, police find a ring of determined protestors. The issues are a blurry mix — with some standing for the right to make EVs or cars in general, others demonstrating support for American jobs or unions, and still others there just to defy Trump. Worried about violence, Michigan’s governor orders the military to support the police insofar as they can to reduce violence.