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By Lydia Polgreen
Opinion Columnist
Two Saturdays ago, I found myself on the streets of a small, down-at-heel Republican town in northwestern Connecticut where dozens of protesters had gathered to join the millions who took to the streets across the nation to oppose Donald Trump’s increasingly autocratic presidency. Wielding handmade signs filled with corny puns, they braved the spitting rain to declare that the United States would not be ruled by a self-proclaimed king. It was, by some estimates, the biggest single-day protest in American history, driven by genuine anger at, among other outrages, Trump’s aggressive and unlawful deployment of the American military on the streets of Los Angeles.
