Giridharadas: ‘Republicans Don’t Like To Be Ruled ... Just Because an Unhinged Wannabe Autocrat Is Trying to Use His Office to Get Rich’

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GIRIDHARADAS: "You’re right. It was a tale of two gatherings, right? You had this attempt to make us something we are not in Donald Trump’s birthday party, military parade. And then you had these 'No Kings' rallies. It wasn’t in one city or two cities or ten cities. It was in hundreds and hundreds more than — I think 2000 locations, separate organized events, millions of people. I saw in The New York Times this morning, possibly the largest single day of protest in American history. One of Donald Trump’s legacies is causing that record to be broken multiple times. And what you saw there, I think, and I’ve been talking to people who themselves are part of this growing movement, who feel like courage is contagious and it’s growing with each successive demonstration of force. There were people in January who were not sure if they wanted to be in it. 'Maybe I’m not so political. Maybe I don’t really know — I’ve never been to a protest before. Maybe I feel scared.' And then February comes along and March comes along, and courage is growing, and you’re seeing people who were a little bit scared to go to the 'Hands Off' rally a couple of months ago now going to this one, and you’re seeing people bring a neighbor, bring a friend. And what you’re seeing is people refusing to be ruled.”