Yesterday, there were a number of “no kings” protests across the country. The main event apparently was here in the Twin Cities, headlined by Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Bernie Sanders and Bruce Springsteen–octogenarians trying to relive the glory days of the 1960s (Springsteen, to be fair, is only 76). Like the entertainers, the crowd was old and white. What they thought they were accomplishing, God only knows.
For people who repeatedly tried to have Donald Trump jailed; who succeeded in getting him shot; who took every possible measure to bar him from the ballot in the 2024 election; who used the FBI and the CIA to undermine Trump’s first term by propagating lies–the Russia Collusion Hoax–with the aid of the press; who rely on rogue, partisan district court judges to frustrate the will of tens of millions of voters; who are already threatening to jail conservatives if they win the White House in 2028; and who happily team up with the Communist Party USA, to complain that Donald Trump is a “king” and a “dictator” betrays a stunning lack of self-awareness.
But of course, they don’t actually believe it. If they really thought Trump is a tyrant, they wouldn’t confidently take the stage to call him one, with no fear of reprisal.
PBS sent a crew to the Twin Cities to do a story on the demonstration here. They reached out to me to provide an opposing viewpoint, which I agreed to do. Their crew came to my office on Friday for the interview, which was conducted by Judy Woodruff. They were perfectly pleasant, but I did a poor job. I answered Woodruff’s questions competently, but failed to make the two or three basic points that should have been top of mind. I think the show is News Hour, to air on Wednesday.
