Characters abound at the DC No Kings rally
By Jimmy Henderson Washington, D.C. Some 200,000 protesters rallied around a stage in Northwest Washington D.C. this afternoon, according to organizers. From the main stage where Mehdi Hassan, Bill Nye, Bernie Sanders and others spoke, the crowd spanned as far as you could see up the accessways of Pennsylvania Avenue and 3rd Street. People came from all around the area and beyond, protesting the administration’s overreach on immigration crackdowns, disappearing community members, and chilling of free speech. What stood out to me at this one particular event among the thousands of other No Kings rallies today, was the cartoonishly massive divide between what peacefully protesting and showing up in unity with your fellow Americans looks like, and what the administration and its allies have attempted to characterize as anything but peaceful. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana called the No Kings event a “ hate America rally ”. Some 200 organizations partnered for this nati...