Source: Common Dreams
by Phil Wilson
“I attended the downtown local No Kings Day festivities in Northampton, Massachusetts, and estimate that some 1,500 people came out. I liked the crowds, but the character and will of the people rather collided with the self-serving ambitions of Democratic Party speakers who hogged microphones that might have been given to ordinary people. The potential for a spontaneous, free-flowing expression of public feeling remained unrealized. What does No Kings Day represent? How does a loosely affiliated collection of organizations achieve a viable identity, a sense of unity, and a vision that goes beyond a mutual feeling that we ought to do something (anything!) as fascist momentum gathers in all its ugly certainty? If it were up to me I would not have any public speeches at No Kings Day delivered by Democratic Party office holders.” (10/23/25)