Downtown Walnut Creek on Saturday looked like the Oakland Coliseum during one of the old Day on the Green concerts.
The biggest difference from a concert was the hundreds of signs with blue-state themes that ripped President Donald Trump, his immigration policies, his cabinet, his health care policies, his staff (White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller wasn’t very popular)… just about anything to do with the current administration.
It was “No Kings” day in Walnut Creek, where people showed up from all over the Bay Area to be heard and commiserate with their anti-Trump brethren, like in hundreds (if not thousands) of other U.S. cities. It was peaceful, with barely any police presence, and it was loud. Some people used walkers, canes or wheelchairs to get around, but they made their points…