OPINION:
Tens of thousands of anti-Donald Trumpers took to the streets over the weekend for rallies against the president, against the White House, against all-things-MAGA — and sanity. Billed as “No Kings” events, the Internet was quick to point out the protesters have already got what they wanted.
America hasn’t elected a king since — well, ever.
The entire premise of “No Kings” is a fabrication. And that’s what makes it a classic example of Democrat solidarity: the very thing for which they fight is built on a lie.
Remember “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot?” Lie.
That was supposed to be the left’s way of protesting the White police officer’s unjustified shooting of Black teen Michael Brown. The narrative? Poor Michael had simply been standing with his hands in the air, a la surrender mode, when White officer Darren Wilson unleashed a hail of bullets into his body, killing him — murdering him! — in cold blood, in the cold, cold racist streets of Ferguson, Missouri. Hmm. Not so. Turns out, as separate St. Louis and federal Justice Department investigations found, Brown had been struggling with Wilson, reaching for his gun.
“Police Officer Darren Wilson Explains How He Feared for His Life,” ABC News wrote in one headline in November 2014.
The left nonetheless went on to use “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” as their anti-police, anti-law-and-order, anti-Republican rally call for months and months, taking knees on football fields and throwing bricks and Molotov cocktails and other fun things.
“Whether History Or Hype, ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Endures,” NPR wrote in August of 2015.
Never let a good lie go to waste, as the left likes to say.
A lot of good Molotov cocktail throwing took place under the Black Lives Matter banner, too — despite the fact that nobody was saying Black lives didn’t matter. And who can forget the pink pussy hat marchers raging in the streets against the dastardly Trump and Men who supposedly want to erase women “from political discussion,” as Pussyhat Project co-organizer Krista Suh said?
Lie.
Steal the vote. Lie.
Persecute poor people who simply come to America to make a better living. Lie.
Deport innocents. Lie.
“In America, we have no kings,” NoKings.org writes.
That is true.
And yet No Kings is all about protesting kings in America — about protesting King Trump. Lie.
“Masked secret police terrorizing our communities,” NoKings.org writes. Lie.
“Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant,” NoKings.org writes. Lie.
Honestly, if these misinformed, ignorant and wildly hyperbolic protesters put half as much effort into getting jobs and working to support their families as they do organization protests that are built on lies, there would be an entire new class of millionaires in America.
That would really cut into the Democrat Party’s power, however.
And that right there is the true intent of all the fabricated hysteria the left rallies itself to protest against: to generate outrage among the low-information voters who make up the Democrats’ voting base so they continue to vote Democrat, continue to keep Democrats in positions of political leadership, continue to fund the Democrat machine. The Marxists, socialists and communists who make up today’s Democrat Party depend on the idiocy of the masses as their only means of keeping power.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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