
No Kings! What Did It Accomplish? #359 By Hank Silverberg Commentary I posted some video and photos of the local "No Kings" protest here in Fredericksburg on my social media pages yesterday. It was small by comparison to the estimated seven to ten million who showed up across the country. We had maybe 2,000 people. When I posted it on a local neighborhood chat room, I got some interesting comments. Most of them polite. Some not. But here is one good question: what did these protests accomplish? Here's my answer to that: It sends a clear message to the White House and more importantly, Congress, that millions of Americans are so ticked off about current policy that they are willing to march in the streets in big cities and small towns to relay that message. These are not radical leftists or "communists," or "terrorists" as the GOP made them out to be. They do not "hate" America, as House Speaker Mike Johnson said from the seat of America...