The Ridiculous No Kings Protest | The American Spectator

It’s difficult to think of a more effective way to illustrate the moral and intellectual emptiness of the American left than to have them march around demanding an end to an institution our founding fathers abolished 250 years ago. This is how the official “No Kings” website described what happened on Saturday: “On October 18, more than seven million of us rose up at more than 2,700 events in all 50 states, DC, and cities worldwide to say: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.” These folks are a little late to the party, as Thomas Jefferson would probably point out were he still with us.

What they are actually protesting, of course, has nothing to do with kings. It’s just another mass outbreak of TDS. As Brit Hume phrases it on X, “The ‘No Kings’ rallies are mostly a protest against a man who sought power three times through democratic elections and enacted his major agenda item by majority vote of democratically elected members of Congress.” Batya Ungar-Sargon expands on his point as follows: “The Left isn’t protesting a king but their fellow Americans. They aren’t standing up for democracy — they are protesting against it.” These ridiculous people do seem to have forgotten that President Trump was democratically elected.

The Babylon Bee, as it frequently does, captured the true essence of “No Kings” and the intellectual capacity of the protestors: “Millions of Americans took to the streets today in order to express to the world their total and absolute ignorance about the political system they live in. Several major cities including Boston, New York City, and Chicago saw over one hundred thousand residents show up to proclaim their abject incomprehension of governance.” This is funny, of course, but it is also dangerous. When this many people are this clueless they are easily manipulated, as Roger Kimball writes in a column for American Greatness:

In nearby Westport, terminally disgruntled middle-to-late-aged citizens, joined by clumps of unattractive GenZeers — Geezers and Zeers — regularly congregate on a certain bridge to protest for or against whatever the central committee has handed down as this week’s issue: climate change, fossil fuels, Brett Kavanaugh, Israel, etc. Whatever the announced issue is, they are there with their signs, their self-righteousness, their ire … Naturally, the crowds were out in force today to disrupt traffic and inform the world that they abominate Donald Trump and all his works.

The point here is that these people aren’t doing their own thinking. Instead, they are following the lead of the leftist organizers of No Kings, including Communist Party USA, the Young Communist League, the Democratic Socialists of America, Antifa, Indivisible, MoveOn, ad infinitum. Countless X posters went to the protests and asked people why they were protesting President Trump. Most answers were just dumb: “I don’t know. We don’t like him. That’s the word around here.” Others were more sinister. This man advocated the use of gun violence: “You gotta grab a gun, we gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system.”

He was by no means the only person who advocated violence. Here’s a protestor carrying a sign asking “WOULD YOU LIKE TO KILL NAZIS W ME.” When asked to name a specific Nazi, he answered, “Stephen Miller.” When asked if he would kill Miller, he answered, “If I had the chance, yea I would.” Here’s Connecticut State Senator Saud Anwar (D), a doctor from Pakistan, holding up a sign at a No Kings protest that seems to refer to Trump’s recent physical: “Cholesterol, Do Your Job.” So, who are these people? Breitbart News reports what NBC-10 Boston reporter Sue O’Connell noticed about the people who took part in the No Kings protests:

There’s not a lot of folks, and granted, it’s a big crowd here, I’m not good at estimating, but it’s definitely over 2000, maybe close to 3000. We can’t see everyone, but it’s an older crowd, a lot of white hair you see out there, Q-tips, as we used to call them in the business. They are out protesting, and not a lot of young people. And also, again, portraying this I hate America idea that this is what this protest is about, showing people who are Boomers and middle-aged out taking time from their day on a Saturday to come and protest and be heard at the nation’s oldest public park.

O’Connell is referring to Boston Common, if that isn’t obvious, but the way she describes these people tells us far more about their motives than does their location. As PJ Media’s Eric Florack quips, “Based on appearances, the protest organizers must have raided every bingo hall they could find in every reliably leftist city in the country … I suppose many viewed it as a last fling for the Woodstock generation.” Florack is definitely on to something here. There are millions of baby boomers claiming to have been at Woodstock, a music festival attended by a maximum of 500,000 people. They very likely “remember” protesting “the war” as well.

The good news is that most baby boomers aren’t this pathetic. Nor is the Gen Z cohort of the population. The 2024 election demonstrated that fact pretty convincingly. The vast majority of the people “protesting Trump” on Saturday are just TDS victims. No one believes that President Trump aspires to be a king or a dictator. That is really just a DNC talking point that will be used as an excuse to impeach Trump if the Democrats have a majority in the House after the 2026 midterms. The “No Kings” protests are part of a larger psyop designed to prepare the public for that contingency. The whole spectacle was astroturfed and utterly ridiculous.