The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested.

“Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday,” independent data journalist G Elliott posted to X Sunday.

For reference, that’d mean Saturday’s demonstrations featured 1-2% of the total population of 340 million taking to the streets in more than 2,000 cities to voice their opposition to the increasingly authoritarian, far-right policies the president has pursued since assuming office for the second time.

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    Was there even any cohesive message other than, “America doesn’t have kings”? I didn’t see one. Sure, it rallied people together, but to do what?

    We need an actual leader. Someone or something with consistency. Protest are good, but a day isn’t enough. We need a plan and a strategy.

    Right now it’s just a fucking mess.