What a NO KINGS Day it was!
Millions of America’s senior citizen anarchists showing how much we hate America by exercising our first amendment right to march in the streets in protest of what is happening to our country. I even saw pictures of people walking with canes while others were being pushed in wheelchairs.
But we seniors weren’t alone. Millions more high school and college students, young adults, and a variety of non-senior Americans also marched.
The pictures and videos from across the country captured a melting-pot of people who looked different, talked different, had different genders, sexual orientations, sexual identities, different races and national origins, but fully united in their commitment to the big, beautiful Constitution.
It was an amazing thing to behold, and how fortunate all of us were to witness such a display of patriotism and determination to keep this government of, by, and for the people alive and well.
I am glad that I cannot imagine what it was like to be a MAGA Republican yesterday seeing this stunning display of citizen power, voter power, seeing millions and millions of American citizens they called terrorists exercise their rights to speak freely and peacefully protest callous and tyrannical policies.
Republicans are on the wrong side of political sentiments in our country right now, something they will pay a price for next year this time when all those who came out yesterday and millions and millions of others will vote to replace them in the House and Senate.
The message of yesterday’s NO KINGS protest was and is – no kings, no autocrats, and no political party that blindly supports Trump’s agenda and his grab for power.
Power is a fleeting possession, here today and gone tomorrow, and yesterday made it clear that tomorrow is coming faster for Trump than he and his MAGA Party ever thought possible.
He is not even nine months into his first year and he already has the lowest first year poll numbers of any president in American history. It’s really quite stunning.
What he seems not to know or, if he does, care about is that in America having political power without the country behind you is a sure sign of bad things to come, and they’re coming for Trump.
Pete Buttigieg keeps reminding us: “Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe, and you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.”
NO KINGS Day was our way of telling Trump we are listening to Pete instead of him, and now we know whose power will determine the nation’s future and it won’t be his.
How fitting it was that while we were protesting the Trump presidency, he was in Florida playing golf. We were exactly where we belonged, and so was he.
The fight is far from over, but it is now abundantly clear that it has been joined by millions of Americans who let the rest of the world know that Trump is not America and America is not Trump.
Each of us has to find our own way to stand firm in the coming months and not lose heart or give up. Perhaps these words a minister mentor of mine told me a long time ago that have helped keep me in the fight ever since may help you.
“Every day,” he said, “it gets harder and harder and better and better.”
And so it does.
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