NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by the policies of President Donald Trump, millions turned out last month for protests around the United States and overseas. Mindful of next year’s 250th anniversary of American independence, organizers called the movement “No Kings.”
Had the same kind of rallies been called for in the summer of 1775, the response likely would have been more cautious.
“It (‘No Kings’) was probably a minority opinion in July 1775,” says H.W. Brands, a prize-winning scholar...