The Good Trouble Band covers Barry McGuire’s Vietnam-era “Eve of Destruction” outside of the State House in Concord. #NoKings

Here's something brief I wrote on Friday morning about Renee Good. It's not a column, really, but something between a dream and a prediction.

An unofficial column: A presidential address to the nation. Someday, maybe.

No Kings is officially underway in Concord. Here’s the scene on the State House side of Main at noon.

Still a half-hour out from the official start of the #NoKings protest, a growing row of signs elicits steady beeping on North Main St. in front of the State House in Concord. #NHPolitics

An hour before the No Kings rally is set to begin in downtown Concord, protesters have started arriving on the State House grounds with signs, slogans, and a few guitars. #NHPolitics

“It’s the same old story: fear masked as policy.”

Concord at 1:30

Both sides of N. Main filling up in Concord.

Concord crowd beginning to swell.

The crowd in Concord, a half-hour before the No Kings protest is set to begin. #NHPolitics

Wait, so it’s not just about realizing the conservative dream of smaller government? Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way writing in Foreign Affairs: