#nyt# To the Editor:

I was one of the young people who attended the No Kings protest in October. I was dragged there by one of my more politically motivated friends. It’s not that I don’t despise President Trump and what he’s doing to our country. It just feels hopeless.

I am too young to remember a time when protests spurred action and have grown up watching and participating in protests that have done nothing. I was 18 years old when March for Our Lives happened in 2018. My own high school had a gun scare only a couple of months earlier. Children have been dying every day since then and there has been no change.

So a part of me asks, Why protest if we’re going to be ignored anyway?

Katie Xue
New York