“No king in America,” said the hand-lettered signs at protests across the nation last Saturday.
It was the 250th anniversary of the battles at Lexington and Concord that started the American Revolution, which rid our nation of despotic rule forever.
Or so we thought.
Our new tyrant plans to dominate next year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, signed in 1776.
Unless America rediscovers its conscience, that occasion will leave us with a Congress as conspicuous for its cowardice as its forebears were for courage.