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“No Kings” Was a Rebellion in Trump Country
Story by Branko MarceticThe protests reached deep into Trump-voting country, and not just in massive, populous cities. Thousands turned out across thirty-five different Iowa municipalities, including several thousand in Cedar Rapids and seven thousand at the state capitol in Des Moines. In Nebraska, ten thousand came together in Omaha, which had seen 1,000 people gather a day earlier to protest recent ICE raids, while two thousand people filled up the main strip of Lincoln and hundreds more protested in rural cities like Hastings and North Platte. Both states had in February seen some of the earliest mass gatherings against Trump, when overflow crowds turned out in Omaha and Iowa City for Bernie Sanders’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in red states.
These scenes were replicated by many thousands more demonstrators in numerous Trump-voting states: across thirty cities in Missouri, dozens more cities in Texas, at least twenty-four communities across Alaska, more than a dozen in Kentucky and Indiana a piece, and more than seventy cities in Florida, an ever-reddening state that last year saw even traditionally more liberal metropoles like Miami-Dade County move markedly toward Trump. For some of these locations, Trump’s recent controversial actions, including siccing the military on US protesters, had clearly spurred more grassroots opposition: in Mobile, Alabama, for instance, the two thousand protesters who turned out were a major step up from the hundreds who taken to the city’s streets two months ago, during the first series of nationwide “No Kings” protests.