There are – finally – mass demonstrations planned across the U.S. for this Saturday, April 5. One has to wonder why right-thinking (if not leaning) Americans have not been marching in the streets en masse on a daily basis since Donald Trump’s inauguration.

What is happening in the U.S. is unprecedented: anti-democratic policies, people being rounded up for deportation, idiot politicians posing for vanity photos in front of poor locked-up souls, cuts being made to government agencies funding crucial work including international aid and environmental protections, tariffs being imposed willy-nilly. Scientific research is being trashed, private data compromised. A crackpot anti-vaxxer is in charge of health. Americans are going to be sicker, poorer, less safe – and there is reason to be scared. That ‘we’re-going-to-launch-some-rockets’ group-chat debacle is just one window into the dangerous ineptitude of this bunch. Not to mention the gleeful dismissal of facts, decency, civility. The cruelty. The chaos.

People should be in the streets about this. This moment calls for righteous anger.

But car-keying?

Because of Elon Musk’s involvement in this as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and as Mr. Trump’s right-hand man, his Tesla brand has become a target for many Americans. Their anger is justified. Some of the actions,........

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