As The Stranger crew was packing up to head back to Seattle after enduring the environmental and verbal heat of the Trump rally in Lynden, WA, we saw a group of kids walking down the sidewalk.* They asked if we were reporters. We said yes. We asked if they wanted to talk to us. One kid shyly demurred, but these three remained.

The leader of the group said his crew, composed largely of 6th graders who attend Lynden Middle School (go Lions!), came to protest the Donald Trump rally on their own volition. "Our parents told us NOT to come," he said.

What did he think of Donald Trump? "He's a racist, a sexist...He's Donald Trump."

The leader said a man at the protest told him to go back to Mexico. "I'm from America," the kid said. "I told that guy to go 'f' himself."

Favorite video games? One said his was Grand Theft Auto. Another said his was Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Can't win 'em all.

As he turned to leave, one of the kids shot me two finger guns, smirked, and said, "Savage." It was unclear whether he was referring to our Editor-in-Chief, or whether "savage" is the the new cool-kid sign off.

Whatever the case, he and his friends were cool, and brave, and funny, and they weren't about to let the hatred and vitriol that Trump and his supporters spew come into their neighborhood and go unchecked.

More power to you, kids.

Savage.

*We removed the photo and the names of the kids at the request of one of the kids' parents.