A leftist logo depicts a clumsily drawn crown with a red cross through it. It looks like a demand for a ban on the joke coronet worn by the comedic monarch in Burger King ads. The words accompanying the logo are “No Kings.”
The No Kings campaign is, however, not a commercial and is the latest brain spasm of those who argue that President Donald Trump is bent on ending democracy and replacing it with his own autocracy. Come to think of it, this falsehood suggests an incidental connection with Burger King, in that the fast-food chain makes whoppers, and the No Kings lefties tell whoppers.
To skewer Trump, No Kings uses mockery that its members apparently think lighthearted but is actually leaden in the extreme. And No Kings rallies are no joke. A bystander was shot dead at a No Kings rally in Salt Lake City in June by someone described as a “volunteer peacekeeper” of the movement, whose identity police are keeping secret.
More rallies are being held all over the country on Saturday, Oct. 18. Who would bet against some turning violent? The New York City rally is sponsored by, among others, the Manhattan Young Democrats and Brooklyn Young Democrats, the Service Employees International Union and New York nurses unions, the militants of ACT UP (remember them?), and the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, and the Democratic Socialists of America. In other words, it’s the usual mix of establishment Democrats, radical public sector unions, and others committed to the collectivist transformation of America by any means necessary.
A feature that No Kings shares with antifa is that each local event is kept studiously separate from the others, which is intended to give the impression that these are spontaneous manifestations of grassroots angst, not parts of a well-coordinated and well-financed campaign to block the government of the nation by the president and with the policies voters chose in November.
Trump is deliberately testing the limits of executive authority, and many cases are pending before federal courts that will establish what is the properly prescribed separation of powers under the Constitution. He’ll win some and lose some, but the tide will not flow continuously leftward, as it has since before the start of this century, against the wishes of ordinary people.
There has been a positive win/loss ratio in restoring some of the values, traditions, and traditional governance of the country since Trump took office. And that is why the Left organized No Kings.
The bottom-up fiction of No Kings’s financing and its organization conceals the fact that it is part of a revolutionary racket. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation worth serious consideration on Capitol Hill to cut the taproot of money that nourishes the radicals.
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Cruz pointed out that radical leftist billionaire George Soros is probably writing checks for No Kings, and his bill would add rioting to the list of predicate offenses for charges under anti-racketeering statutes. This would allow the Justice Department to prosecute funders if No Kings or other demonstrations turn toward violence.
It is time to act against those who hypocritically pay for mass gatherings at which organizers disingenuously claim to want peace but which are sponsored, attended, and unleashed by those who call for revolution.