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According to USA Today, seven million people showed up to demonstrate that they don't like kings in America---and they hate Trump.
According to the Population Clock, the population of America was 342,639,969 this past weekend.
If USA Today is correct in reporting that seven million people attended the demonstrations, that means about 335,639,969 people chose not to attend.
Less than a year ago, America elected Trump as President with 77,303,568 votes, which secured 312 electoral votes.
It was a landslide.
On day one, President Trump began keeping his promises. The promises he had made to millions of Americans during his campaign.
Apparently, the outrage has to do with the notion that many politicians don't keep their promises, so the naysayers have now awakened to the fact that Trump does.
From that backdrop, let's take a closer look at the seven million people's attempt to make you believe Trump is a king. To "Crown Trump."
Be informed, not misled.
USA Today reported, "Millions of people turned out nationwide on Oct. 18 to protest actions by the Trump administration and celebrate their Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly."
The crowds at an estimated 2,700 rallies across the country included older Americans who protested Vietnam or never protested anything before, veterans who said they didn't fight for a country led by a dictator, and young people who are frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to them. Many said they were upset by the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants and other vulnerable populations.
If crowd estimates hold, the one-day "No Kings" event was the largest civil action in the United States since the first Earth Day, 55 years ago. No major incidents or arrests were reported during the day.
Republican leaders spoke out ahead of the Saturday protests, blaming them for the current government shutdown and labeling them "hate America" rallies.
That's exactly what they were. A combination of hate toward Trump and hate toward the sovereignty of our nation, the very thing they claim to be "trying to protect."
Many demonstrators, perhaps most, were either "over forty" or it was their young grandchildren protesting with grandma and grandpa.
A 95-year-old California activist was demanding that the country must resist and keep protesting.
On California’s agricultural Central Coast, Dolores Huerta, the 95-year-old union organizer and civil rights activist, said the farming community of Watsonville has always been a place of “resistance.”
Speaking at a "No Kings" rally in the city’s downtown plaza, Huerta, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW), said the country was facing something "most of us thought we would never see in the United States of America.” Decades ago, Huerta and the late UFW co-founder Cesar Chavez organized farmworkers in Watsonville and other California agricultural communities that rely on immigrant labor.
People, she said, "are being terrorized." She called detention and deportation efforts by the administration “ethnic cleansing” of people of color, including those who are Indigenous to the continent.
She and her Democrat Party do not believe in closed borders with orderly legal immigration procedures. Nor would she believe in national sovereignty, which is God's plan for nations.
We have been living with the results of globalist, open borders ideologies for the past four years under the Biden Administration.
I noticed person after person---young and old, said they attended the demonstration to "protect Democracy."
‘No Kings’ isn’t a defense of democracy at all. Instead, it’s a defense of the entrenched power of the Democratic Party.
Via The Federalist:
Organizers describe their movement as a necessary defense against President Donald Trump’s supposed assault on America’s democratic foundations, believing that Trump’s actions are akin to a tyrannical ruler’s rather than the legitimate actions of a democratically elected president.
Activists are expecting the largest single day of protest in modern American history, citing increased organic opposition to the Trump administration’s attempts at enforcing immigration law, the attempted deployment of National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, and even the recent government shutdown, which are all being cast as examples of authoritarianism.
But a closer look at the “partners” page of the No Kings website contradicts the “grassroots” categorization of these “anti-authoritarian” protests.
Far from a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, the “No Kings” movement is powered by a familiar network of progressive organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, MoveOn, Public Citizen, the American Federation of Teachers, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Greenpeace, among others.
Behind them stand the same constellation of progressive megadonors that have driven the “resistance” since 2016. One major No Kings partner, Indivisible, for instance, has received more than $7.6 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2018.
Seen in this light, “No Kings” isn’t a defense of democracy at all. Instead, it’s a defense of the entrenched power of the Democratic Party.
As such, when progressives say they are “protecting democratic norms” they are in reality protecting their dominance within the unelected government bureaucracy, the mainstream media ecosystem, academia, and other institutions that operate beyond the reach of American voters, all of which Trump is seeking to either reform or dismantle.
Within that liberal worldview, elections are sacred only when they affirm the technocratic and managerial consensus. When they don’t, the institutions and those aligned with the ruling regime must step in to stifle any potential changes to the system.
Journalist Adam Johnston writes, " Elections now merely swap figureheads atop a vast administrative machine rather than install leaders capable of altering the steady leftward course of American domestic and foreign policy.
He continues: This is why former President Joe Biden, who clearly suffered from severe cognitive decline during his term, did not impede the functioning or direction of government, demonstrating that the system, under Democratic leadership, largely functions without the direct involvement or even need for a chief executive.
This can be attributed to the fact that most federal employees politically align with the views of the Democrat Party, as evidenced by 84 percent of all political donations from federal employees going to Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris in 2024.
These "No King" rallies are much ado about nothing more than creating a venue for people to vent.
Even now, unelected judges are subverting the power of a duly elected President of the United States.
Despite claims from Democrats about Trump’s use of tyrannical, unchecked power, his presidency has been characterized not by presidential overreach, but by unelected judges’ deliberate and relentless undermining of his legitimate executive authority under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
Takeaway
In response to the never-ending subversion of presidential power, and those who feel these repeated legal challenges to Trump’s agenda are part of America’s vaunted “checks and balances,” Harvard professor of constitutional law, Adrian Vermeule, wrote the following:
"If your reaction to [repeated legal challenges] is that 'the process is working,' you’re missing the point. Any one of almost 700 district judges might intervene at any time to block anything the President does, even within the core of his Article II powers. The overhang of uncertainty and confusion about where power lies in our government is toxic in itself."
Johnston says, "Professor Vermeule’s warning cuts to the heart of America’s current constitutional crisis. A republic cannot function when unelected judges, bureaucrats, and agencies wield unaccountable veto power over a duly elected president."
He continues, "The 'No Kings' movement is not a defense of democracy, but rather its subversion. Those who support it are buttressing a system in which electoral outcomes are tolerated only if they serve the interests of the permanent unelected ruling class."
Trump is no king, but his very existence threatens those who have assumed the throne of American power.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.
