Military parade and No Kings protests: A split screen of a divided America

 There are events that become a Rorschach test that brings out America's political and cultural divisions in bold relief. Saturday's military parade, which celebrated the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and also fell on President Trump's birthday, was that kind of moment.

As the Trump administration geared up for the parade filled with tanks and armored personnel carriers rolling through the nation's capital, people in dozens of cities across the country protested the event as a politicization of the armed forces by a would-be autocrat.