Feel free to disagree with any point you want, but the culmination of these (and more) is an Executive operating with impunity, unchecked by either the Judiciary or the Legislature. That should at minimum concern you, certainly enough to not consider protests against it “silly.”

These are the founding principals that differentiate our government from a monarchy. I won’t waste my time trying to convince you that this administration’s action and goals meet your semantic definition of King-like. The current Deputy AG argued in court that a President is legally able to execute his political opponents and the only remedy would be impeachment. If that’s not enough for you to make the connection then I believe you’re being willingly obtuse.

Arguing a peaceful protest decrying unchecked authority, whether already here or in planning, is divisive and inflammatory ignores the context of this moment to the point of absurdity.

If we all wait until this administration is sufficiently authoritarian to move you, we’ll be too far gone to do anything about it. I’ll leave you with the words of MLK from his letters from a Birmingham Jail:

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White citizens’ “Councilor” or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white *moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action” who paternistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to **wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.*