The ‘No Kings’ folks are coming back this weekend. It’s not entirely clear what they expect to accomplish, besides continuing their years-long tantrum over the Trump presidency.
The first time they did this was last June, but there was apparently a second ‘No Kings’ protest since then, not that anyone noticed.
This time, aging has-been Bruce Springsteen is all in.
The most annoying part of these events isn’t even the protesting. It’s the way the media treats them with kid gloves, as if this is the real voice of the people and not the majority of voters who sent Trump back to the White House.
Look at this fawning coverage from USA Today:
Could this weekend’s No Kings protests be the largest ever?With more than 3,100 events planned nationwide to protest President Donald Trump’s actions and policies, organizers expect the No Kings protests to draw millions of Americans into the streets March 28.Two earlier No Kings protests brought out huge crowds, and organizers hope this event will be among the largest days of protest in U.S. history.The ACLU estimated that the No Kings protests in initial June 2025 drew about 5 million people to 1,800 events, and the October 2025 demonstrations drew 7 million to 2,500 events. The ACLU’s estimate for the June 2025 protests matched the findings of Harvard University’s Crowd Counting Consortium.Indivisible cofounder Leah Greenberg said organizers expect people to protest for a variety of reasons − from immigration enforcement to calls for impeachment. The important thing is people come out and build connections, she said. Indivisible is one of the organizers.
Indivisible? That’s a George Soros-funded group.
Back in October, a New York psychotherapist named Jonathan Alpert suggested that these events are essentially a form of group therapy.
Now he is back with a new piece in the Wall Street Journal:
‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group TherapyAfter a “No Kings” rally last October, I was walking through the area and paused to read the signs. A woman asked me, “Aren’t these great?”“I don’t know,” I replied. “I kind of like some of Trump’s policies.”“Well, f— you then.”…At their core, the rallies resemble bad group therapy—gatherings that offer validation, solidarity and emotional release. They feel good in the moment. Participants vent, find reinforcement among like-minded people, and leave feeling heard and aligned. The experience can seem productive, even clarifying. But like bad group therapy, it stops at validation. The feelings are processed but not challenged, reinforced but not examined. There is relief but little resolution, and the underlying problems remain. It offers the feeling of progress without the substance of it.
John Sexton of Hot Air notes that we have seen this movie over and over again, and it’s always the same cast:
We’ve seen this play out so many times already. There were huge anti-war marches during the Bush administration. And Occupy camps set up around the country during the Obama administration. Then we had the Women’s March, which started big and petered out. Then it was BLM marches nationwide. More recently we had the anti-Israel campus protests and No Kings. Democrats just like shouting at clouds. Then they run out of energy and then a couple years later they come up with a new slogan and start over.
If these people want to spend all of their time protesting, that’s their choice.
It’s just maddening to watch the way the media covers it, especially as someone who remembers how they treated the Tea Party.
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