
No Kings, Big Protests, Overreaction #341 By Hank Silverberg "No Kings!" That was the cry that brought as many as seven million people out to protest in more than 2,000 communities from large venues like Los Angeles and New York City to small towns like Fredericksburg, Virginia. In general, they were mostly peaceful, with only a few confrontations, mostly on the west coast. What the demonstrations made clear is that there are millions of people very unhappy with some major policies from the Trump administration after just six months in office. For some it was the insidious ICE fishing expeditions where they rounded up the usual suspects and sorted out who is actually a criminal later, while punishing people who did nothing wrong but crossed a border to look for a better life. For others it's the massive cuts in federal spending that have ruined some lives already, and could hurt million...