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Last weekend’s so-called “No Kings” demonstrations were billed as a nationwide uprising, with organizers claiming millions of participants in cities from coast to coast. What the movement’s promoters boast as a mass rejection of democracy’s safeguards was really another coordinated theatrical effort staged by the left’s activist networks and celebrity allies. The scale of these events and their organizers’ talking points are well-documented by mainstream coverage.
Protesters waved signs accusing President Donald Trump of aspiring to monarchy, even as the man they targeted repeatedly insisted he is not a king. In a surreal twist, opponents’ fever dreams were answered by crude AI mockery trending online — including an AI-edited clip depicting “King Trump” dropping sludge on demonstrators — a piece of social media theater that critics on both sides found distasteful. The exchange exposed the performative nature of both camps and the dangerous normalizing of deepfake content in modern politics.
On his FRONTLINE show, Carl Higbie rightly seized on the irony, arguing that the very existence of widespread protest undercuts the left’s claim that Trump is an all-powerful monarch. That line of thinking should be simple to any patriot: in a real autocracy you don’t get to hold mass rallies in every state without risking jail, exile, or worse. Higbie’s point lands because it reminds Americans what real freedom looks like and exposes the left’s dramatic overreach.
Conservative voices pointed out another obvious fact: these demonstrations were not spontaneous town-hall uprisings but the product of well-funded networks and celebrity amplification. Billionaire-funded ads, union and nonprofit organizing, and famous faces in luxury bubbles parading through downtowns hardly prove grassroots authenticity — they prove the opposite. The elite donors and Hollywood activists who lead these protests are a long way from the struggles of ordinary Americans paying taxes, raising families, and working overtime to keep their businesses afloat.
Republican lawmakers and commentators also noted the timing and political theater of the rallies, arguing that they distract from real problems like the shutdown and border security. Senators and members of Congress made the sensible point that political stunts should not derail governance or be used to justify legislative paralysis. For hardworking voters, the endless spectacle of left-wing demonstrations looks less like civic engagement and more like a campaign-season press release dressed up as moral urgency.
Meanwhile, Democrats’ celebrity cavalry — from Hollywood actors to erstwhile pop-culture pundits — have been trotted out to amplify alarmist rhetoric, insisting that opposing a president is equivalent to saving democracy itself. That cynical framing ignores the fact that Americans on both sides want safe streets, secure borders, and stable families, not constant performance protests for cable news ratings. The liberal cultural elite’s excursions into politics don’t convince swing voters; they alienate them.
Let’s be clear: conservatives stand for the right to peaceful protest, for free speech, and for public assembly. We will defend those liberties the left claims to champion even when we disagree with the message. But we will not sit quietly while partisan activists weaponize those freedoms to foster chaos, bend the narrative with deepfakes, or call for political ends that trample due process and common-sense governance.
At the end of the day, Carl Higbie’s blunt assessment captures something ordinary Americans already understand: the ability of millions to march openly in our streets is evidence of an imperfect but functioning republic, not proof of a monarch’s rule. If the left truly believed in their own rhetoric, they would stop trying to silence dissent and start offering better ideas on policy instead of endless spectacle. Patriots who love this country want debate, voting, and results — not virtue-signaling pageantry dressed up as revolution.
