From the New York Post,
‘No Kings’ protests turn violent in Portland, LA and Dallas — as rally near Mar-a-Lago takes bizarre turn.
The Post reports,
No Kings demonstrations in Portland, Oregon got out of hand in the evening with protesters sporting gas masks attacking police officers who were trying to control the crowd, according to video posted on X by FreedomNews.tv. There was no immediate word on arrests.
The famous Scottish economist Adam Smith once wrote (ca. 1776),
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
There must be a similar proverb that applies to Democrats: whenever an outdoor gathering of Democrats in public reaches a critical mass, the crowd turns to riot.
John mentions in this post the national flagship rally that was held in St. Paul, MN, yesterday. As John reports, the event drew a number of elderly celebrities.
Local media can’t quite decide how many were on hand for the event.
- KSTP-5 (ABC): Tens of thousands of Minnesotans filled St. Paul for a flagship No Kings Day march and rally
- Fox-9: St. Paul No Kings protest had over 100K in attendance
- WCCO-4 (CBS): More than 200,000 attended flagship “No Kings” rally in Minnesota, organizers estimate
Whatever the actual attendance was, local media want you to know that the entire event remained peaceful. Unlike the George Floyd riots, the anti-ICE riots, or the [fill in the blank] riots, for the first time in living memory, Democrats managed to gather in large numbers in the metro area and not riot.
