There was a March for Democracy to the Minnesota State Capitol today. It was scheduled well before the midterm election, with the intent to deal with whatever the Trump regime threw at us.
Well, as we now know, we were triumphant and Trump did not attempt to intervene at the polls.
I barely heard about the march, compared to any of the earlier marches, so I wasn't surprised that the turnout was light compared to all of the others, including the recent October 11 rally dedicated to getting out the vote. That was itself smaller than any of the others I've been to during the second Trump administration. (Though there were dozens of other gatherings that day in the Twin Cities: the one in downtown Minneapolis was still the largest one.)
Today at the Capitol, I would say it was a couple thousand people, no more than 5,000. The size made it possible to wander easily and talk to people. On the whole, I thought the speaker line-up was among the best so far because their talks were almost all short, and there was music from the Singing Resistance and an occasional chant, too. Many of the other events have had too many speakers (with under-powered sound systems) and not enough singing or chants, in my opinion.
I've never had so many people take photos of my sign as they did today. That's probably partly because it was less crowded, so people could see it, and partly because it was very topical. Here it is:
I made this sign back in the spring for one of the earlier No Kings rallies, mashing together part of the illustration by Victor Juhasz from a Rolling Stone article and one I found of Trump online.
I didn't have time to make a new sign for today, but this one seemed newly fitting, and a lot of other people appeared to agree.
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