OPINION:
The “No Kings” protests over the weekend embodied the self-indulgence of the left. Bankrolled by the usual leftist nongovernmental organizations and the Communist Party USA, the occasion turned out to be struggle sessions for elderly White liberals eager to denounce President Trump.
Mr. Trump is the duly sworn-in leader of a constitutional republic. He won two Republican primaries and at least two general elections. First, he prevailed over Hillary Clinton, who believed she had a divine right to rule because she was married to former President Bill Clinton. The New York Times all but anointed her victor in the race a month before the 2016 ballots were cast, announcing she had a 93% chance of victory.
Mr. Trump also defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, an unpopular figure who trailed in the 2016 Democratic primary. A handful of party elites decided she should inherit the role after the public recognized that President Biden was, and always had been, an empty suit carefully managed by courtiers.
As commander in chief, Mr. Trump governs with restraint. Unlike his Democratic predecessors who ignored the Supreme Court rulings they didn’t like, Mr. Trump follows even the partisan decrees of Democratic-appointed district court judges who seek to sabotage the agenda that voters endorsed.
These inferior magistrates are wielding imperial power, but No Kings isn’t picketing their courthouses. That’s because “No Kings” is a slogan from the marketing agency hired to run an operation with millions of dollars in funding from the foundations of George Soros and other far-left billionaires. Were it otherwise, No Kings malcontents in London and Toronto would be directing their vitriol at Buckingham Palace.
King Charles III is head of state of England and Canada. Perhaps that’s easy to forget in the Great White North given the remote nature of his majesty’s reign, but Canada’s $20 bill will soon feature his visage as a reminder. Until then, it commemorates Queen Elizabeth II.
This isn’t a problem because leftists don’t oppose monarchy. They espouse a sentiment fit for a bumper sticker that distracts attention from their own dictatorial tendencies. Speakers at the No Kings rallies are the people who brought you lockdowns, forced masking, cancel culture and censorship.
These 21st-century Bolsheviks are on a mission to divide the nation so it can be refashioned without a limit on the federal government’s authority to meddle in our lives. As House Speaker Mike Johnson put it, No Kings unites “Marxists, socialists, antifa supporters, anarchists and the pro-Hamas faction of the far-left Democrats. This is the face of today’s Democratic Party.”
Red flags abound with participants vocalizing support for the likes of Luigi Mangione and Charlie Kirk’s assassin. These riffraff increasingly threaten the stability of polite society as they “resist” whatever the Democratic Party aristocrats tell them they should hate. Liberal prosecutors and judges ensure anyone acting on these marching orders escape punishment for the mayhem they cause.
Mr. Trump trolled the vulgar sign wavers over the weekend with artificial-intelligence-generated images of himself sporting a crown, mocking the No Kings charade.
The chieftains who oversee the one-party states in China, Cuba and Venezuela don’t wear the trappings of royalty, but they are kings in all but name. Those are the regimes that the No Kings organizers hope to emulate.
Thus, No Kings isn’t about defying “authoritarianism.” It’s about replacing Western values and tradition with the tyranny of unelected bureaucrats. No thanks.
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