Hundreds of thousands marched in the “No Kings” protests in New York City this weekend, as millions did elsewhere across the US. Organized labor’s marginal presence at the New York protests was emblematic of its anemic opposition to Trump more generally.

As tens of thousands of New Yorkers streamed down Seventh Ave from Times Square toward their dispersal point at Fourteenth Street for the city’s “No Kings” protest on Saturday, October 18, a separate march of perhaps five thousand waited uncertainly a long avenue block away. At its front, march leaders led a chant of “Whose streets? Our streets!” — apparently oblivious to the irony that the New York Police Department (NYPD) was at that moment refusing to allow it to march uptown and west to join the far larger protest. Behind them, protes

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