Close to 100,000 people rallied and marched through downtown Seattle in one of the thousands of No Kings protests that took place around the country on Saturday. Strolling en masse through the city in the bright sunlight, the marchers raised an array of clever homemade signs that decried the Trump administration’s authoritarian tilt, as well as other appalling aspects of the regime.
Here is a sample:
“No lyin’ king.”
“Huddled masses defeat fascist asses.”
“I’ve seen better cabinets at IKEA.”
“The reason the price of eggs is high is that all the chickens are in Congress.”
“Alexa, change the president.”
“Keep the immigrants, deport the racists.”
“Are we great, yet? I just feel embarrassed.”
The marchers were a colorful and happy cross section of our community – young, old, gay, straight, militant, moderate – unified in a common concern about the chaos, corruption and unconstitutional acts of President Donald Trump and his cronies. Were their complaints being heard in the White House? Only through a distortion field, apparently.
Trump’s spokesperson Abigail Jackson claimed protests around the country were the product of “leftist funding networks” and had no real public support. She said the “only people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them.”
Just as dismissive was Maureen O’Toole, spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “These Hate America Rallies are where the far left’s most violent, deranged fantasies get a microphone,” she said.
I suppose that implies Washington Attorney General Nick Brown is one of the violent and deranged. Brown, who boasted of suing the Trump administration 60 times since he took office a little more than a year ago, stood at a microphone to speak to the Seattle crowd and was bold enough to invoke the word “fascist” more than once.
“Y’all, I do not fear Donald Trump,” Brown declared. “Do you fear Donald Trump?”
“No!” the crowd called back.
“Hell no!” Brown said. “Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.”
The dismissive mob in the White House and at the NRCC do not appear to fear the hundreds of thousands of Americans who rallied against them. The midterm elections in November will tell us which side has cause to be scared.
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