TIRANA, June 13 -- It began with flamingos, and it has arrived at the prime minister's door. Two weeks after Albanians started protesting a luxury resort that the family of Jared Kushner wants to build on a protected lagoon, the demonstrations have swelled into the largest the country has seen in years, and their target is no longer only the development. It is the government that cleared the way for it.

On Wednesday tens of thousands filled the boulevard outside Prime Minister Edi Rama's office in Tirana, a crowd that stretched half a mile, waving inflatable pink flamingos and signs reading Albania is not for sale. They chanted for a New Albania, and many called openly for Rama to resign, according to Al Jazeera. The movement now has a n...