Dispatch from London

Hands across the sea with the HandsOff protest.

Time for a quick check-in.

As luck would have it, I had planned for some travel several months ago, and the timing was such that I wouldn’t be in the states for the Hands Off rallies. Fortunately, I could still participate from London, where there was a Hands Off rally in Trafalgar Square, a longstanding venue for protests of all sorts.

While the numbers here in London didn’t rival those crowds of thousands or tens of thousands in U.S. cities, there was a respectable crowd of between 300 and 400 people — a mix locals and American ex-pats.

Virtually everyone I chatted with is as baffled about Trump as still rational Americans are. Front of mind for most folks here seems to be the illogical and ever-changing tariffs that the orange menace has imposed. It seems like both politicians and average citizens are trying to understand what the response to the tariffs should be.

Of course, even wi…