Yesterday, there were a number of “no kings” protests across the country. The main event apparently was here in the Twin Cities, headlined by Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Bernie Sanders and Bruce Springsteen–octogenarians trying to relive the glory days of the 1960s (Springsteen, to be fair, is only 76). Like the entertainers, the crowd was old and white. What they thought they were accomplishing, God only knows.
For people who repeatedly tried to have Donald Trump jailed; who succeeded in getting him shot; who took every possible measure to bar him from the ballot in the 2024 election; who used the FBI and the CIA to undermine Trump’s first term by propagating lies–the Russia Collusion Hoax–with the aid of the press; who rely on rogue, partisan district court judges to frustrate the will of tens of millions of voters; who are already threatening to jail conservatives if they win the White House in 2028; and who happily team up with the Communist Party USA, to complain that Donald Trump is a “king” and a “dictator” betrays a stunning lack of self-awareness.
But of course, they don’t actually believe it. If they really thought Trump is a tyrant, they wouldn’t confidently take the stage to call him one, with no fear of reprisal.
PBS sent a crew to the Twin Cities to do a story on the demonstration here. They reached out to me to provide an opposing viewpoint, which I agreed to do. Their crew came to my office on Friday for the interview, which was conducted by Judy Woodruff. They were perfectly pleasant, but I did a poor job. I answered Woodruff’s questions competently, but failed to make the two or three basic points that should have been top of mind. I think the show is News Hour, to air on Wednesday.
UPDATE: Scott Jennings sums up the “no kings” movement:
The flags flown at the No Kings Rallies were pretty representative of the Democratic coalition: communist hammer & sickle, trans, Hezbollah, Hamas, & all being waved by weirdo boomers. If you want to know where the energy on the left is – they showed you. pic.twitter.com/tlpjJq0lmK
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 29, 2026
Weirdo boomers for sure, here in Minnesota. Some people don’t take seriously the fact that the Democratic Party is now the creature of Communists, anarchists, terrorists and flakes. But I do: when we put up 37 “Support Our Police” billboards in the fall of 2020, they were defaced seven times by people who, for example, spray painted out the word “support” and painted the word “murder.” They left behind their calling card in the form of two symbols–the Communist hammer and sickle and the A in a circle, for Antifa. And some time later my organization’s office was firebombed. We never found out who did it, but I am pretty sure it was not the philosophical descendants of Hubert Humphrey. Once again, it was Communists or anarchists–the activist wing of the Democratic Party, which is now the only wing that counts.
