Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the ‘hate America’ rally in New York City. Or at least that’s what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson insisted it was. Who knew that so unbelievably many Americans, millions of us across the United States, would ‘hate’ this country enough to go out and march in the recent No Kings demonstrations, even in places where we might have feared being in distinct danger from the troops of ‘our’ president? In the days before the latest No Kings demonstrations, no matter whom I talked to or where they lived, they seemed to be planning to go to their local version of that march/rally. My neighbors, other city people, suburbanites, even friends living in the countryside.” (10/27/25)