"No Kings" March: Portland

A quick view of what folks here in the great Northwest think of the orange fascist.

Here in Portland, the protests found me before I even made an effort to get to the protests. I heard the dog barking and some horns honking outside. I looked out the front window and saw a “Families Against Fascism” march going by:

It was totally sweet to see so many multi-generational families going by. These parents are bringing their kids up right (or, as the MAGA folks would say, they’re “grooming” their kids). At the end of this parade of probably a couple hundred people, a family with two kids had five-gallon plastic buckets with them and those squeezee sticks that you use to pick up things, and they were picking up all the litter along the way.

Shortly thereafter, I headed to the bus stop a couple of blocks away to get the bus downtown to where the rally started. The normally 9/10ths empty bus was full of people of all ages heading to the r…