If the lily-white liberals who make up the bulk of the "No Kings" movement were actually serious people intent on making the United States a better place, they wouldn't be protesting Donald Trump. Instead, they'd focus on the one thing that would make conservatives join them: term limits.
Let's start with the obvious thing about these folks: they are very unserious people, indeed, who are out there for one reason and one reason only – their deeply-ingrained hatred of Trump. The stench of it envelops them everywhere they go and their loathing of him drips from their fangs; they make spectacles of themselves in front of the entire world solely to scratch the collective itch that's been aggravating them for over a decade now.
Here's a sampling of the delightful people who participated in a protest this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia:
Indivisible Charlottesville made a montage of people at No Kings
— ((( charlottesville 🫧 ))) (@CvilleBubble) March 30, 2026
TDS folk quote DNC platform & complain about billionaires -- tho George Soros funded ❌ 👑
Congressional candidate & Soros' boy Tom Perriello appears
🇺🇸 Reminder - VOTE NO on gerrymandering pic.twitter.com/j3dXTx2zSo
What a miserable bunch; being so angry all the time has to be exhausting, right? And, yet, they are so delusional in their self-righteousness and self-satisfaction that you almost feel happy they got out of their personal asylums for an afternoon of sunshine and exercise with their fellow inmates. Getting some Vitamin D won't hurt this crowd one bit.
Never forget, however, that this virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't about the man at all, but is instead about those who support him, voted for him, or don't spend every waking moment preoccupied with hatred for him. He's just in the way, as the meme said. You're the real target of the wrath – they are mad that you took the control they thought they had away from them.
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I came across a very smart essay posted Monday on Ken Blackwell's Facebook page explaining to the No Kings crowd that they aren't fighting fascism at all, but are willing stooges for the well-organized movement behind it all.
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
500 groups. Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about.
That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure.
That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline.
And that is what you walked into on Saturday.
You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. “No Kings.” It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic.
But the signs were ready before your outrage was.
It goes on to point out that the protesters have been "trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian," noting, "That is not clarity. That is conditioning." Well ... boom.
There's nothing more all-American than being disgruntled with the federal government, but, as the Blackwell essay points out, No Kings is mad at the wrong person. Donald Trump, despite his epic trolling about a '28 presidential run, is gone in three years. He's term-limited; the amount of time he has to effect change is finite.
The Kings and Queens deserving of our ire are the denizens of DC – those career political grifters who see it as their right to hold office, often becoming fabulously wealthy in the process. They look a lot like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell, who have a total of 127 years in DC between them.
Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it:
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign.
That is what entrenched power looks like.
Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades.
But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time.
The No Kings crowd seems unwilling to put their misery and wrath aside for even a moment to ponder who really is doing the most damage to our country. If they were capable of rational thought – and it looks like that boat has well and truly sailed – they'd see there's some common ground with Americans who are actually interested to dislodging the deeply-entrenched fat cats of Capitol Hill. The fat cats who applaud the No King-ers even as they laugh at them for their folly and foolishness.
Ken Blackwell sums it all up beautifully in his message to the willing dupes: "You marched against kings. But what you are actually enabling is a system that does not need a crown to control you. You think you’re resisting control while helping construct it."
