On Saturday, across the vastness of the United States, more than seven million people took to the streets. Across six time zones, from California to Maine, from the deep South to the industrial Midwest, from the tiny towns to the sprawling metropolis of the cities, they gathered beneath banners that read No Kings.
It was, by every measure, a remarkable display of collective will; one of the largest coordinated demonstrations in modern American history. More than seven million citizens, roughly two percent of the nation, united not under a single political banner, but around a shared conviction: that the creeping authoritarianism of the Trump regime must not go unchallenged.
They marched against power abused and promises broken. Against the vilification of migrants and minorities. Against racism and sexism. Against lies peddled as truth and fear repackaged as patriotism. They marched not because they expected immediate change, but because silence felt like complicity.
The protest spanned all fifty states. There were no borders on Saturday. Just people. Ordinary Americans who decided that enough was enough.
And yet, while millions raised their voices across the Atlantic, here in Britain’s demolition and construction sectors there is silence.
Deafening, obedient silence.
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