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Just returned from the \u201cNo Kings\u201d march<\/strong> down State Street to the Capitol in Madison WI today. Found a (bum-proof) city bench outside the Overture performing arts center. The fellow across the street had a better idea, observing the festivities from the open window wall of a whisky bar. (Madison really is great that way.) After an hour the anti-Trump marchers were still coming strong six blocks away from their rendezvous at the University of Wisconsin Library Mall.<\/p>\n It was festive, with its own marching band and even a bagpiper, who was cheered when he fired up the pipes. And HUUUGE!<\/p>\n We\u2019ll do our best to emulate Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, and Al Roker at Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Parade and comment on the variety of signage and plumage. One tee-shirt read, \u201cPolitical Prisoner in Training.\u201d Another, \u201cThis is a Protest; Not an Insurrection,\u201d and \u201dSo Much Wrong, so Little Cardboard.\u201d And this play on a certain disgraced former FBI Agent\u2019s possible threat, \u201c86 #47<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The round-up of illegal immigrants<\/strong> was the main course. \u201cImmigrants are welcome here,\u201d was one chant. For all that, maybe one Mexican flag. More American flags, but upside down (indicating distress, of course). \u201cNo Kings,\u201d like many a partisan demonstration, was a BYO punch bowl of Leftist causes: End the War on Drugs. No Public Land Sales. Trans rights. My Body, My Choice. And, unforgivably \u201cFree Gaza.\u201d No outward support for the Ayatollah, at least.<\/p>\n Our favorite placard: \u201cLocal Unpaid Agitator<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Note this well: at least nine of 10 signs were home made.<\/span> My fellow Republicans will dismiss this as the work of George Soros and his checkbook at their peril. Perhaps the Third Internationale paid for the Magic Markers. But there are not this many Hollywood extras. If it\u2019s Antifa<\/span>, the Madison chapter has many a gray beard.<\/p>\n The canary isn\u2019t just coughing, fellow Republicans, it\u2019s dialing 9-1-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\u00a0Immigration and what have you<\/h3>\n