When I watched the online coverage of the “No Kings” rally this weekend, I had one of those déjà vu moments — and no, it wasn’t the kind brought on by any sort of “creative enhancer.”
I sat there thinking, where have I seen this before? Was it this spring’s property tax rally? The abortion protests? RFRA? Right-to-work? Nope. If we’re being honest, this movie started a long time ago — on a Sunday afternoon on Monument Circle back in 2007.
More than a thousand people gathered on the Circle that day, all dressed in black on a hot summer afternoon, a sweltering human wave of frustration. And here’s the kicker: there was no Facebook event, no Instagram Story, no livestream. This wasn’t astroturfed. It was powered by a couple of blogs, some radio chatter, word of mouth, and a nucleus of thoroughly pissed-off Hoosiers who had just gotten clobbered by property tax bills…