“No Kings” Protests were held in major cities all around the United States this past weekend. It was estimated that multiple millions of people would show up for some 2,500 events that were planned to take place in all fifty states. But with the exception of major cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., the turnout ended up being rather lackluster. For the people who took to the streets with signs showing rather predictable and even pre-approved platitudes, some shouted, some danced, and others pranced around in inflatable suits. Then there were the protesters who acted in more egregious ways, such as the kid in Seattle who stabbed an effigy of President Trump, while yet another public school teacher was seen mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Despite some concerns that these protests might devolve into violent riots (or “mostly peaceful protests” to use the legacy media vernacular), as the day drew to a close most of the protestors simply packed up their signs, ended their unhinged antics and went home. After the sun went down, there were some cities though, such as L.A. and Portland, which experienced some rioting by black-clad members of a non-existent domestic terrorist organization, but ever since Trump started enforcing immigration law, these actions have already been taking place in those same cities for weeks now.
My home state of Minnesota is what I would call a blue beauty tomato state—blue on the outside but red on the inside, given that the major Commie-adjacent metro areas control the state’s political direction. There were only a few protests around the state, with the largest taking place at the capitol. Some of my friends and family members, who I do not politically see eye-to-eye with, posted about their time at the rally on social media, but didn’t share anything on their posts that they made from the No Kings rally in June that was particularly interesting or different, other than perhaps a handful of new slogans which appeared on their signs.
What was conspicuously absent on that sunny October day were the (level-headed) counter-protestors to disrupt or clash with the No Kings protesters. According to one account on X, to them, this was an indication that, “Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside social media.” Despite this comment revealing more about the insular attitude of the original poster than either Trump or MAGA, in my estimation the reason there were no counter protestors was because they were just too busy going about lives. The other side holds a more realistic view of what is and isn’t wrong with our nation, and an equally realistic assessment of what wandering around at a rally for a few hours will do to address those issues (the answer is nothing).
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