7 million American demonstrators can't be wrong [View all]

By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist

Around 4,000 people showed up to our Everett “No Kings” rally, including, unexpectedly, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson. He’s a good speaker. My favorite sign: “No Faux King way, Donald.” And thank you to the people who recognized me somehow and urged me to continue writing. I guess I will.

Seven million people, it’s estimated, participated in rallies around the country. Like Everett’s, there was peace, fellowship, American flags and humor, along with properly serious concern demanded by the threats we all face — even MAGA, yet to recognize it — from Donald Trump and the presidents over him, Stephen Miller and Russell Vought.

What, if anything, did this massive, much bigger than last time, nationwide turnout accomplish? Maybe it won’t immediately bend the arc of history toward justice. But it’s not nothing that those patriotic rallies showed what a profligate liar is Holy Mike Johnson, who speaks directly with God in Heaven but will, if the Ten Commandments mean anything, spend eternity elsewhere, alongside Trump. “Hate America,” he called the rallies, which were, demonstrably, the opposite. There’s nothing more pro-America than “No Kings.” It is, after all, the force behind America’s birth.

It must have infuriated every high-level Republican, including Trump and his aforementioned manipulators, that there was virtually no violence. Smarmy, condescending Mike, trusting trusters to trust him trustingly, attempted to dismiss it all, but ended up embarrassing himself (YouTube: tinyurl.com/straw4u). One sad lady wrote online that she showed up somewhere in her MAGA hat, hoping to provoke post-worthy video of nasty reactions but was, instead, ignored. In Portland, filming the results for propaganda in Noemansland, ICE agitated the crowd until there were a few arrests (Facebook: tinyurl.com/2provoke).

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