My wife and I attended the “No Kings” protest in Chicago on June 14. The crowd was huge, but peaceful and orderly. We felt proud to exercise our First Amendment rights.

“Either authority must abdicate and allow the crowd to do as it wishes: in which case the symbolic suddenly becomes real, and ...

Then, one day, we saw CNBC’s Rick Santelli deliver his now-infamous rant, calling for a “Tea Party” on the Chicago trading floor.