22 Thoughts On No Kings DC

It was very big, but ironically the enormous national showing kept us well below potential. Plenty of people did of course metro in from Maryland and Virginia, and I know that a small number flew in to protest in the capital city. But No Kings events scattered across the Washington, DC, metro area and across the country cutdown on commuter and fly-in protesters. As time goes on, I hope we’ll see at least a little consolidation, particularly nearer to New York and DC, so that media organizations have a harder time downplaying the news significance and the financial and political elites that prop up MAGA see more clearly how outnumbered they are.
I’m personally not cut out for protests. I don’t like starting chants, I don’t like participating in chants. Watching other people do those things makes me feel mortified for reasons I can’t really explain. In modern parlance, you can define the word “cringe” as “the things dorky, earnest…..