The story of the day is the “No Kings” rallies going on around the country. Chicago has been the site of one of the largest. It probably won’t be as large today because of the rain.
I don’t object to them so long as they remain non-violent but I don’t see much point to them, either. I don’t believe in kings (probably less than most Americans since I hale from a particularly Anglophobe part of the country). I don’t even watch Downton Abbey. I do believe in democracy (probably more than most Americans since I hale from a particularly populist part of the country).
But I don’t think they do much good or mean much, either. That may be colored by my living in Chicago, a remarkably oligarchic even hereditary oligarchic place. Here we are governed by lawless oligarchs and have been for most of the last century. Oh, yes, we have elections. Those are mostly pro forma.
History will remember the crowds that led up to the invasion of Canada.