The "No Kings" protest rallies must be turned into a movement.

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15. No Kings and the Democratic Party need to be allies within the larger, inclusive Resistance.

The coalition needs to be Non-traitors. Whenever I hear the question of "what should Democrats be doing to stop Trump" I want to throw my shoe at the TV. The better question is "what should AMERICANS be doing to stop Trump?"

I try not to scream or vomit when local groups say they can't join rallies because they are nonpartisan or bipartisan. Nonpartisan and bipartisan are dead. The only real choice is patriotic or NONPATRIOTIC.

I'm active in my local Democratic Party, concerning which I recently wrote: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220727184)

I am an unapologetically partisan member of the Democratic Party, but I believe Democrats (big D and small d) can prevail only by forming coalitions based on shared loyalty to the spirit of the constitution (not the constitution as it has been bastardized by partisan court decisions) and a shared sense of decency. We need to be leaders one day and followers of our allies the next. We need to join forces with people whose only apparent redeeming quality is that they are non-traitors in the battle between democratic freedom and authoritarian rule.

We are past the point of haggling over the Democratic Party's "message." Any message we offer gets diluted and misrepresented through the agency of billionaire-controlled mainstream and social media. We are fighting for the continued existence of a recognizable form of democracy. Our important choices now are tactical.