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Millions turned out for the so-called No Kings rallies across America on October 18, 2025, a spectacle organizers boasted would show mass resistance to President Trump. What the media calls a historic outpouring was mostly street theater—designed by left-wing activists to make noise, not to govern. Their march-and-post social media play only underscores the deep disconnect between protest optics and real policy results.
Carl Higbie was right to call out the demonstrators on FRONTLINE: their noisy parades prove one simple truth — Donald Trump is not a king. Conservatives should not be threatened by crowds of citizens exercising free speech; we should be glad democracy still works when the other side shows up to scream. Higbie’s point hits at the heart of the hypocrisy: if Trump were truly an autocrat, these billion-person tantrums wouldn’t be allowed to happen.
Let’s be honest about who organized and financed these events: the usual array of activist groups and well-heeled donors who prefer marches to policy. The No Kings movement is a coalition of left-wing organizations that capitalized on previous June demonstrations and a broad media campaign to inflate turnout and outrage. This is not grassroots discontent so much as a coordinated political operation aimed at delegitimizing a legitimately elected president.
The display of outrage also revealed something uglier — the movement’s tolerance for shocking behavior and theater that crosses lines. Videos from the protests included disturbing gestures and tasteless stunts, and the left’s response to criticism was predictably to double down and play victim. Meanwhile, opponents responded in kind; President Trump even reposted an AI-created clip depicting protesters as targets of ridicule, a tasteless move that nevertheless proves how far the culture wars have fallen into propaganda and performative fury.
Republican voices on air were quick to call out the No Kings spectacle for what it is: political theater aimed at distracting from real issues like the shutdown and border chaos. Conservative commentators and lawmakers told viewers the protests amount to little more than virtue-signaling and obstructionism, and warned that Democrats are using spectacle to avoid governing. If Democrats prefer rallies to responsibility, the voters will remember that when the bills come due.
Patriots should take the No Kings noise in stride — unafraid and unbowed. Let them march, let them chant, let them try to manufacture outrage; it only proves our institutions function and that power in this republic remains with the people, not a throne. The conservative answer is simple: keep working, keep winning elections, and keep holding accountable those who trade governance for grandstanding. No crowns, no coronations — just the American people deciding their future at the ballot box.
