Just when you think we have lost the plot, we get a glimmer of hope that we have not.The estimated 9 million people who took to the streets in more than 3,000 locations across the U.S. on Saturday in the largest public protest in American history sent a message of hope. Beyond their chants, banners, placards, and speeches calling for “No Kings,” an end to the abuses of ICE, and a halt to the illegal war in Iran, the demonstrators conveyed a deeper message: we are increasingly coming to understand the meaning of historian Timothy Snyder’s observation that democracy is…