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The nation is bracing for another round of the No Kings protests on October 18, billed by organizers as a mass demonstration against what they call authoritarian overreach. Organizers promise peaceful turnout in thousands of cities, but conservative Americans aren’t buying the idea that everything is as innocent as it’s being sold. The stakes are high for law and order and for the rule of law itself when these demonstrations are framed as a nationwide campaign rather than local civic action.
Left-wing activists and some Antifa defenders have brazenly invoked the Boston Tea Party as a flattering comparison for their planned disruptions, trying to cloak modern rioting in the language of patriotism. That argument is nonsense, and conservative voices like Glenn Beck have rightly called it out as a false equivalence, warning Americans not to confuse destructive mobs with the founders who fought for liberty. There is a difference between principled, targeted political dissent aimed at tyranny and roving bands who seek to intimidate, vandalize, and shut down speech.
Let’s be clear about what the Boston Tea Party actually was: a targeted, political protest against a specific tax law and monopoly imposed by a foreign government, not a free-for-all of looting and terror. The patriots who dumped tea took a precise stand that had constitutional implications for governance and representation, in a context entirely different from today’s chaotic street scenes. Those who invoke December 16, 1773 as cover for smashing windows and assaulting innocent bystanders are abusing history to justify lawlessness.
Worse, this rhetoric isn’t coming from the fringe alone; organizers for No Kings have even publicly embraced the Tea Party analogy as a rallying cry, proving the point that some in the movement are comfortable trading on American symbols while ignoring the rule of law. Local organizers in New England have openly praised the Boston protest as inspiration, and that invites scrutiny when the same events consist of anonymous, masked actors sowing violence under the guise of righteous protest. Patriots respect history and property — they don’t weaponize it.
Republican leaders and conservative commentators have rightly pushed back against attempts to sanitize the involvement of extremist elements, arguing that portraying every anti-government outburst as noble dissent is dangerous and irresponsible. When national media and Democratic operatives rush to label these events purely as peaceful, they erase the victims of real disorder and undermine public safety. Americans deserve protests that defend liberty without trampling on private rights or endangering communities.
It’s past time for clear thinking: defending constitutional protest does not mean endorsing masked agitators who burn, smash, and threaten. Conservative patriots should stand for lawful dissent, for peaceful assembly, and for the protection of small businesses and ordinary citizens who bear the cost of chaos. We must demand accountability from organizers who borrow revolutionary language while importing revolutionary tactics that betray the very freedoms they claim to honor.
If Democrats and their allies want to reclaim the language of the founding fathers, they should start by condemning violence instead of romanticizing it. America’s real patriots honor the rule of law, defend property rights, and fight for liberty with courage and respect — not with Molotov cocktails and socially curated hashtag histories. The rest is performative theater, and hardworking Americans see through it.
