"A lot of the crowd were seniors, almost all white in our blue state, decked out in tie-dye for the women, gray ponytails for the men, and bandannas for the dogs. To them he was Donny Dementia, Impotus, Orange Man, Mango Mussolini, the Lying King, Cheeto Benito, Comrade tRump, and many more unprintable here. Back in the day, many of these same elderly marchers could only come up with "Tricky Dick" for Richard Nixon. Progress is real."
"Their signs reflected the variety of issues under protest, including some oldies-but-goodies like reprising endless demands around abortion rights, freeing Palestine, defunding the cops and Black Lives Matter, abolishing ICE, and multiple ones saying that Kamala or Hillary were president we'd all be having brunch now. One said, "No Kings, Maybe a Queen Someday." They don't seem to fear dictators who'll dictate the right way, I guess."
The No Kings marches attracted a largely senior, white, liberal crowd wearing tie-dye, gray ponytails, and bandannas for dogs. Signs spanned abortion rights, Palestinian freedom, police defunding, Black Lives Matter, abolishing ICE, and hypothetical alternate presidencies. Slogans ranged from witty to trivial and included inconsistent or offensive elements. The No Kings meme functioned as a physical version of broad social-media grievances, absorbing many unrelated complaints. Participants were united more by intense personal hatred of one political leader than by agreement on policies or a unified strategy. The protests offered no clear roadmap for concrete change.
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