By Douglas V. Gibbs
The No Kings protesters want you to believe that they are a part of a grassroots movement that is genuinely upset that President Trump is, as they put it, a dictator-wannabe. Except, it’s all a lie. It’s orchestrated, produced, and funded by the political machine behind the Democrat Party’s latest lurch leftward. Their movement isn’t about saving democracy (much less the constitutional republic), or their warped version of the Constitution. It’s all about the Democrat’s eternal tantrum over losing control and power. They can’t stand that the American people rejected their twisted agenda twice (and perhaps, three times). So, now they’re out in the streets, waving signs, chanting slogans, and pretending that they’re the guardians of liberty. But, they are actually screaming that they don’t like who the American People elected, and they are going to stomp around lurching toward violence until they get their way.
No Kings? It’s a scam. These are the same people who worship unelected bureaucrats, activist judges, and socialist globalist institutions. They want a king, but they prefer that the king wears a mask of progressivism and rules by government regulatory fiat.
It’s ironic that the whole No Kings thing is going on as we approach America’s 250th birthday, celebrating a quarter of a millennium since we defeated being ruled over by a – well – king. What is going on is not a protest. It’s a well-organized, well-funded provocation.
The leftist Democrats and their radical allies aren’t doing their worst because of liberty. It’s about power. They are trying to delegitimize a president they despise and a country they don’t understand because they love their power and leftist dogmatic ideology more than they could ever love America. But, the court of public opinion is seeing through it. We the People know what real kings are, and none of them are in the White House. They are in the media, the universities, and the bureaucracies.
The opposition of liberty and truth will try to convince you that their movement is sweeping the country through a grassroots wave of leftwing enthusiasm. They hide the fact that the turnout was tepid at best, and that their alleged movement is running on fumes despite the amount of corporate media cheerleading.
They fail to recognize that if we actually had a king, these protests would not be happening. They’d be banned, crushed, and buried under the weight of real tyranny. Kings claim to invite dissent, then round their opponents up to silence them. That’s what real authoritarianism looks like.
If President Trump was king these rallies wouldn’t be tolerated, they’d be obliterated. In fact, except for when they become violent and filled with illegalities against federal personnel, they’re protected.
And those folks out there for the No Kings rallies do not represent a majority of Americans. They are radicals, WOKEsters, and mostly pushing seventy and eighty. Many of them are the sixties hippies trying to regain their radical youth with a few kids dragged along by their activist parents, nodding dutifully while Grandma chants “No Trump, No Kings, No KKK” in a voice that barely rises above a whisper from her tired and aged vocal chords as she tries to channel Woodstock like it’s still relevant.
In truth, they are a cartoonish image of absurdity. Petty. The protests aren’t about principle. They are about pouting.
Meanwhile, President Trump is wheeling and dealing with Congress and the rest of the world, remaking America and the globe. He’s issuing executive orders tied to existing law and they’re all within constitutional bounds. The courts scrutinize them, the media screams, but the Supreme Court keeps affirming his authority because he is constitutionally executing the law, not rewriting it.
Trump is not a dictator. He’s not a king. He’s a president who doesn’t play patty-cake with the press or appease the rest of the leaders of the world. He’s gruff, firm, and unflappable. It drives the Left into hysterical temper-tantrums and all they know to do is scream, “Orange Man Bad.”
The Democrats in the end doesn’t hate kings. They hate losing power. Biden, Obama, and their hero FDR ruled like emperors. Their executive orders flew around like confetti, making law, modifying law, and refusing to operate in America’s best interest. Mandates. Lockdowns. Surveillance. Censorship. Obama even went tried to muzzle conservative media and Fox News. Obama practiced imperialism with a progressive smile.
No Kings? They mean, “No Trump.” They are fine with kings as long as they wear blue ties and worship their leftist dogma. Their complaint is not that Trump is a king, but that the tide is turning against them.
And while they stomp around and scream “No Oligarchs,” a true billionaire oligarch, George Soros, and his network of organizations, is doing what it can to help bankroll the “No Kings” protests. Soros’s organization Open Society Foundations, which oversees the Open Society Action Fund, in 2023 issued a two-year grant of $3 million to the progressive group Indivisible, according to public filings. Indivisible is the group managing participant data and communications for the “No Kings” protests taking place in cities nationwide. Soros’ foundations say they have distributed more than $32 billion globally to advance their ideological leftism, and according to Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, “There’s considerable evidence that George Soros and his network are behind funding these rallies, which may well be riots across the country…This politicized march is being organized by Soros operatives and funded by Soros money. No one denies these basic facts.” Indivisible, a Soros-backed group, is acting as the primary Central Hub of the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests. It goes way beyond groups like Antifa.
According to Seamus Bruner, research director at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), “It’s not just Antifa…there is a whole ecosystem of radical, professional protesting organizations.”
For the Democrats in the U.S. Senate holding out during Schumer’s government shutdown, the “No Kings” absurdity is actually hurting their cause. The idiocy in the streets is opening the eyes of those watching the Democrat Senators holding out for demands for things that Trump was elected to end. And cracks are appearing. We now have three Democrats voting to reopen the government, and with elections on the horizon some of the others might be willing to break rank and end the Schumer Shutdown. If they don’t, the Mid-Term Elections may get even more Republican than they are already beginning to look.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
