No Kings Redux:
Heavy Is the Head Obsessed With Imaginary Crowns
Court jesters and drama queens.
Nearly four months have passed since progressive activists first swarmed the streets nationwide under the banner “No Kings.”
www.libertynation.com
18 Oct 2025 ~~ By Cory Smith
The wait is over. Time to break out the Trump baby balloons, grab a mask, pick a slogan, and think inside the box – the No Kings protests are back. Rehearse the script, cue the delusions, and prepare to spread the message: “America has no kings.” Wait, most people already know that. Why the fuss?
It seems numerous Americans firmly believe President Donald Trump is an authoritarian leader on the brink of coronation and that parading the streets while holding signs and shouting Dr. Seuss–like slogans will stop his spurious fascism. Never mind that he won the popular vote in 2024 and was elected president. Forget the laws he follows and the checks and balances by which he abides. It’s go time. Americans are living in
The Handmaid’s Tale, with Nazi minions bending to the whims of their authoritarian master.
Just one question: Is the authoritarian president in the room with us right now?
The No Kings Fantasy
Nearly four months have passed since progressive activists first swarmed the streets nationwide under the banner “
No Kings.” It was a well-organized and heavily funded event, backed by nearly 200 “partners” and rife with signs calling President Trump a con man, a rapist, and a felon, among other epithets. Conservative activist Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute accidentally stumbled into one of these protests in Oregon and saw a sign that read “super callous, fragile, racist, sexist, Nazi POTUS,” a colorful riff on
Mary Poppins.
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Today, October 18, expect much of the same. “[M]illions of us are rising again,” explains the event’s website, “to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.” Of course the power belongs to the people – that’s how Trump returned to the White House: The people chose him. Though if you believe the progressive narrative, when millions of Americans protested in June, the president was mere inches away from getting crowned. But thankfully, the “world saw the power of the people, and President Trump’s attempt at a coronation collapsed under the strength of a movement rising against his abuses of power,” claims the No Kings website. Phew.
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Astroturf
One of the lead organizers of No Kings is Indivisible, self-described as “a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.” Grassroots might be a bit of a misdirection. George Soros’ Open Society Foundations has given the left-wing group seven grants since its conception in 2017. According to OSF’s website, the last contribution was in 2023, a two-year grant of $3 million “to support the grantee’s social welfare activities.” Many of the nearly 200 partners that No Kings advertises on its website have also apparently received funds from OSF.
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They don’t even look as if they’re trying to hide the Astroturf propping up this operation. Maybe that’s because few people seem to be paying attention, which is probably how so many on the left are fully convinced Trump is an authoritarian. Perhaps the most baffling part of it all is that even if the protests have zero impact on the political realm, everybody involved with No Kings can likely still say the endeavor was successful since the president was, in fact, not crowned king of America. Turns out fictitious problems are easy to solve.
Commentary:
So many lied to confused and hate filled people. But One Antidote.
Strange, Democrats once claimed they were pro-border enforcement. Now DSA Marxists are all anti-border enforcement, because Trump is president. They’re liars, hypocrites and anarchists. But that’s not saying anything new.