(Suppose you threw a tantrum and nobody came?)

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Protest.

What a selfish little word. It’s a noun, and a verb, and an adjective, and it’s acceptable to accent either syllable. Selfish. Someone should protest, and air their protest in a protest march.

And protest, of course, is what almost nearly happened this weekend, in pretty much nowhere across the United States, where hundreds of thousands of protestors didn’t actually show up to pout and hold their breath until the “Donald Trum...