Ryan Haygood, a New Jersey civil rights lawyer and leader of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, said Senator Booker putting “his full self into it” was inspirational. “We need voices everywhere, on every level, fighting for the foundation and soul of this country,” he added. The notoriously anti-Trump The Bulwark had the honesty to admit that the speech accomplished nothing, but then claimed Senator Booker “was a voice of one crying in the wilderness. And that’s how you build a dissident movement: with simple acts of witness,” and “by God, Cory Booker’s filibuster mattered. Or at least it mattered to me.”