By KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

Saturday’s No Kings events across the U.S. likely included some Marxists and anti-fascists, but the overwhelming majority of those peacefully protesting were there because we don’t want one branch of government to rule unchecked by the other two. Such a government is unconstitutional and anti-American.

The protest included the expected Progressives and Democrats, but also Centrists and former Republicans, united in our strong disapproval of how the president insults, indicts, lies about, fires, or otherwise ruins those who publicly disagree with him.

We were united because we don’t want a system of government where the president can do whatever he wants while our legislators and judges are too afraid, greedy, or corrupt to stand in his way.

I am a Democrat, but I would feel the same if the president were Obama or Biden, or anyone else.

Likewise, it is possible to hold conservative values, to be anti-abortion or pro-school-choice, for instance, and still feel deeply offended by the president’s words and actions.

If enough of us resist, we can persuade elected officials to resist as well.