America, America

On Saturday, a million or more Americans—including many of you—proved we are not about to let a despotic minority of self-serving oligarchs and kleptocrats, miscreants and sycophants determine our future without a fight. The “Hands Off!” protests in every state and hundreds of cities and towns across America were both an opportunity to express our anger and demonstrate the beauty of coming together to stand up and speak out.

The hand-made signs that I saw among thousands of motivated Chicagoans (I happened to be there over the weekend) stated it plainly: “We The People Will Not Be Silenced” and “In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!” and “Make America Generous Again” and “Hands Off Our Jobs” and “Save Democracy, Stand Up to Trump!” and “Due Process Is Our Process” and “My Dad Fought Nazis in Europe. It Sucks that I Have to Fight Them in America” and simply “Resist.” The chants included “We will not be silenced!” and “Rise up!” and “Fight back!”