‘No Kings’ protests across US attended by millions
In what was billed as the largest single day of protest ever in the nation's history, millions of protesters took to the streets in almost 3,000 cities and towns against the right-wing policies of President Donald Trump.
The protest was so big that even Trump and Republican Party leaders were compelled to respond to it.
They renamed it the Hate America Rally and sought to portray protesters as all being far leftists.
That's even though the United States has far-left parties, which are mostly unknown, and even though few consider Democrats to even be as far as the center-left, having lost the working class in recent elections,
I think they demonstrate every day that lack of conscience is their superpower, their ability to lie is frightening, and they lie about things that are easily disproved, and they don't seem to care.
And I think that's really scary, that they seem so confident that they're going to stay in power, that they lie with abandon like that.
Protestor 01
It's not just traditional liberals and Democrats coming here.
I was traditionally Republican.
I voted for McCain, I voted for Romney, but I'm deeply ashamed of how the Republican Party has evolved, and I'm here to protest all the unconstitutional violations that the Trump administration has committed.
Protestor 02
The protest was titled 'No Kings', a reference to America's anti-monarchical liberal democratic revolution of 1776.
Perhaps the biggest motivation for protesters has been the unprecedented immigration raids, which has non-white Americans walking around with their passports out of fear of being apprehended, even if their family has been in the US for over 100 years.
What I'm concerned with the most is that there are masked, unidentified people, who are just taking people off the streets.
And there's people also impersonating them, taking people off the streets, especially women and children, zip tying them.
And then there are the people that were missing from alligator Alcatraz, like 1,500 people.
And it's just not okay; that's not what America is.
Protestor 03
The federal government shutdown also may have boosted anti-Trump turnout.
It is now halfway to the longest shutdown ever, which was 35 days, as Democrats have dug in to try and save Obamacare health subsidies in the world's sickest nation with the world's most unequal health care system.
Polls show that Trump is at his most unpopular point yet in his second term with an approval rating of just 37%; his approval rating on economic policy is at its lowest point in either of his two terms.
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