The Absurd Hypocrisy of Democrats’ “No Kings” Protests
Shane Harris – If you’ve opened social media, picked up a newspaper (yes, they still exist!) or flicked on a cable news channel in the past 24 hours, you’ve undoubtedly seen liberal commentators giddily reporting on the left-wing “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump over the weekend. But as leftists rush to portray the rallies as a spontaneous democratic uprising against a wannabe dictator, they are in fact only acting as pawns of powerful interest groups that actually want monarchical control over American life.
It should go without saying – but apparently needs to be said anyway – that President Trump is the furthest thing from a “king” that Americans have had in the White House in a long time.
What kind of king would intentionally try to shrink the size of his government and return more power to states and localities on issues like education? What kind of king would cut the size of his tax-collecting bureaucracy, reduce government’s oppressive control over vehicle emissions, or donate his own salary – essentially working for free? What kind of king gives up a life of wealth, luxury, and universal adoration to subject himself and his family to endless personal attacks and even attempts to put him in prison?
If Democrats are really interested in rallying against tyranny in the White House, they should have done so during the Obama and Biden administrations.
It was under Obama that the federal government continued illegally spying on American citizens without a warrant, illegally weaponized the IRS against Tea Party conservatives, illegally granted legal status to millions of illegal aliens, and engaged in dozens of other abuses of power.
Under Biden, the federal government infamously targeted parents, Catholics, pro-life grandmas, and even stay-at-home moms as potential “extremist” threats. Biden also weaponized the government against Trump, his top political opponent, to attempt to undermine his re-election campaign – the most outrageous lawfare crusade in American history.
But hundreds of thousands of protesters nonetheless took to the streets in all 50 states on March 28 in the third iteration of the “No Kings” marches. The first two last year drew similar media fanfare, but also revealed that the rallies are hardly the grassroots, citizen-led affairs they were made out to be.
As Fox News reported, the protests were in fact organized and funded by “a network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues.” Those groups paid professional activists to organize and attend the rallies, which is why many had suspiciously professional-looking signs and props.
One protest in Chicago had a massive depiction of the U.S. Constitution. As one X user noted, “No normal American could ever afford to have something like this made. This is the CLEAREST example of the massive funding behind the paid protest.”
One of the largest individual funders of the protests was liberal megadonor George Soros – a Hungarian-born billionaire who has notoriously funded the progressive takeover of local prosecutors’ offices throughout the country. Soros’s extensive network of shadowy nonprofits and activist groups has its fingerprints all over this weekend’s rallies.
And here we see the deep irony and grotesque hypocrisy of this entire astroturfed “movement.” The point of the “No Kings” mantra is supposed to be that the United States was founded by declaring independence from a foreign king – and therefore our country has no kings. But the same people screaming this line in the streets are in fact doing the bidding of a foreign-born billionaire who is attempting to sabotage a duly elected president.
If anyone is acting like a king, it is the wealthy liberal elites pushing these protests in the first place. They didn’t like the outcome of the 2024 election, and so they are using their fortunes and institutional power to manufacture a narrative that undermines President Trump and his agenda. The Democrat partisans who turned out for these protests may think that they are opposing tyranny, but really they are just acting as pawns of the most tyrannical individuals in our society.
Even according to the most generous estimates, about seven million people attended the No Kings rallies nationwide (and there’s plenty of reason to doubt that figure). That is indeed a massive show of force – but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the 77.3 million people who voted for Trump, or even the 75 million ballots counted for Kamala Harris.
This is important to keep in mind. In our sensationalist, 24-hour media culture, a noisy minority almost always gets more attention than the silent majority. The point of the No Kings rallies is to maximize turnout among the rabid anti-Trump Democrat base, push a narrative about Trump being unpopular through the media, and ultimately demoralize the Republican base ahead of the midterms.
In other words, it’s not some principled crusade to stand up for democracy or defend American “norms.” Strip away the theatrics, and the “No Kings” movement reveals itself not as a rebellion against tyranny, but as a carefully orchestrated exercise in it.
SF Source AMAC Mar 2026