The parade no one came to.

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16. No way 7 to 15 million people showed for No Kings protests

While this is a good description of Trump’s sparsely attended, extravagantly expensive vanity parade, it is just a FB post after all, and no one should take its estimate of the NO Kings turnout as anything approaching accurate.

With the exception of a few large cities like Chicago, turnout in most places was reported to be under 10,000- there’s no way that adds up to 7 million, let alone 15 million, which would be close to 5 percent of the total US population, something that has never happened before, not even during the civil rights/Viet Nam era, when 5 percent would have been a much smaller number.

What is impressive about the No Kings turnout is that it was so widespread- a few thousand here, a few hundred there, even in deep red areas.