Thousands of people took to the streets in several South King County cities Oct. 18 to protest the policies of the Trump Administration.

The “No Kings” rallies saw locals join the nationwide, sign-bearing, by-the-side-of-the-street protests to express their disagreement with what they consider the emerging authoritarianism of the federal government.

This matters.

That we, the people, can still flex the freedom of speech muscle in this way demonstrates the enduring strength of one of our most cherished — and by world standards — unusual institutions: freedom of speech. It’s no accident that our founders wrote it into the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

What the First Amendment gives us is the right to call our leaders fools, jerks, even turds — okay not those specific

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