I agree kinda. However, I'm not discouraging them as to their protesting potentially being useless now. I'm trying to stop you from doing that negative thing/showing others it's fine to do it now.
There are valid reasons why not to protest/revolt before the election. No one knew how it would turn out, Rs could have been crushed. Even with Trump, it wasn't incredibly likely that he would let Musk completely dismantle everything. Of course it was a possibility, but it's a bit different to protest a possibility and to protest something actually happening, so I think it's fine if you would protest in the one case but not the other.
nobody believed us before the election. me and my partner tried talking to people we know about it and they either never heard of it or told us it was a conspiracy theory