Comicomment: The everyday reality of American-style democracy

Tens of thousands of Americans poured into the streets across 2,700 cities and towns last Saturday for the second wave of the nationwide “No Kings” protests — now the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history.

The contrast could hardly be sharper. Outside, a tide of public frustration surged through the nation; inside, lawmakers remained locked in ceaseless partisan combat. The image borders on the absurd — a democracy so consumed by division that ideology drowns out the very voices it was built to represent.