Last night I got a text message from my daughter, who works in a very upscale restaurant in a downtown North Carolina city. She sent a video (which I have no idea how to upload – sorry) and said there were more protesters outside than she had ever seen. As night began to fall, the protestors grew louder. Popping sounds were everywhere. So were the police, she told me, every few feet between the protestors and the downtown businesses. Multiple streets had to be shut down as "hundreds" to "thousands" of protesters took them over. (Depending which news agency you trust with the numbers.)

As a downtown employee, my daughter is not a newbie to protests occurring outside the restaurant window. But this time, she said, it was very different. There were more people than she'd ever seen and it was just a Wednesday night.

Wisely, instead of walking home like she generally does, she opted to sleep over at a coworker's place in a high-rise only steps away from where she works. She said they made it there with no trouble whatsoever but both girls were extremely relieved to get inside.

One thing struck me. It's only Wednesday. The "No Kings" protests are scheduled nationwide on Saturday, not coincidentally, the same time as President Trump's long-awaited Grand Military Parade to celebrate the 250th birthday of the US Army.