mardi gras

Articles, video. Those who were conspicuously not in attendance.

Update: The indispensable MaxSpeak has photos, etc. and necessary comments:

So where are the moderate and liberal luminaries? To be sure, their constituents and audiences were at the demonstration. I doubt anybody was impressed by some of the ultra rhetoric that could be heard, not so much because it was ultra, but because the thinking underlying the weak presentation was also crap. Not a few of the participating radical celebrities are spent bullets, not to say dud firecrackers.

The leadership void is gigantic.