India, March 31 -- On a cold but crystalline Saturday in late March, something happened in the United States that has no modern precedent and very few historical parallels.
Eight million people, perhaps nine, took to the streets in more than 3,300 cities, towns, suburbs, and rural crossroads across all fifty states. They marched in Boise and Birmingham, in Providence and Portland, in the frozen Alaskan community of Kotzebue, perched above the Arctic Circle, and in Driggs, Idaho, a town of fewer than two thousand people in a state that delivered Donald Trump sixty-six percent of its vote in 2024. They held signs, rang bells, beat drums, and chanted a phrase that is at once archaic and urgently contemporary: No Kings.
What unfolded on Marc...