DANIEL VAUGHAN: The 'No Kings' Hypocrisy Was On Full Display - If Anyone Cared

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 October 20, 2025

I woke up Sunday in the United States of America, once again, not ruled by a king. It was generally speaking, with the exception of the Tennessee Titans sucking at the sport they allegedly play in the National Football League, a beautiful day in America, because we solved the monarchy question almost 250 years ago.

You wouldn't know this by yet another leftist protest, notably on one of the largest college football weekends of the season (with upsets aplenty, no kings there, either). They've named this one the "No Kings" march. It's another great marketing campaign from the team that brought you "Defund the police," a slogan that leaves most people scratching their heads.

Liberals are fond of telling everyone that a king doesn't rule them. And that's great. I'd agree. We aren't. We had this called an "election" where everyone in this country had a chance to vote on what happened. Americans across all 50 states voted in that, and chose the person to run the country.

I'm describing the general election, where this actually happened. Democrats only quasi-played by these rules. After it was clear to everyone with a working set of eyes that Joe Biden couldn't continue in the race, well after a rigged primary took place, Biden was off that ticket.

At that point, a cabal of Democratic leaders rammed through Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as the new ticket without a single vote being cast in their favor in any state. New York Magazine called it the coronation event.

After that, the strategy started wearing thin, and the Harris-Walz media strategy went into full effect: Hide Harris from the press and questions. Democratic Pollsters admitted the obvious: they needed to hide Harris from the media until election day, unless people looked too hard behind the curtain.

We know what happened, though. Her campaign imploded, she lost all the swing states, and Trump won the popular vote on top of everything. Democrats hid Biden's health from prying eyes, tried rolling him out against until one debate, where they couldn't hide that, which blew everything up—and then attempted to ram through Kamala Harris without even a media interview.

But yes, this is the same party telling you that they don't support kings.

It's an absurdity.

Donald Trump has been in three elections now, and won two of them. We're not even a year out from the last election, and this is the stupidity that we're getting fed from Democrats: no kings.

Dan McLaughlin at National Review nailed it with his observation, "'No More Kings' is maybe 25% people who are against kings & 75% people who want the king to be someone with left-of-center politics."

That is correct, and Democrats have proved that for decades. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has gotten three Pulitzers, once fantasized in books, columns, and interviews in the early Obama years about the United States becoming "China for a day."

If only Democrats had more power than they did at the time - a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and outright majorities everywhere else - they could enact all the "right" policies without dealing with pesky opposition.

Barack Obama echoed this in 2014 after two brutal midterms, "President Obama has a new phrase he's been using a lot lately: 'I've got a pen, and I've got a phone.' He's talking about the tools a president can use if Congress isn't giving him what he wants."

And who can forget that when Democrats lost court cases at the Supreme Court, they immediately turned around and demanded court packing. In fact, they demanded an entirely new set of rules for the Supreme Court to tilt it in Democrats' favor, claiming it was illegitimate.

But remember, Democrats do not support kings.

Oh, wait, my apologies, that's not right either. Democrats sent out notes to those abroad (aka outside the United States) and said, "A few notes: We've changed the 'No Kings' theme of other events around the world to 'No Tyrants,' so as not to mix messages in a country with a monarchy."

You cannot make up the absurdities of the Democratic Party and the liberal lunatics that inhabit it.

The truth is this: the No Kings rally was nothing more than a pre-election rally attempting to boost turnout in elections for Virginia and New Jersey. Generic ballot and state-level polling are showing those races, once thought easy wins for Democrats, tightening up.

In 2018, Democrats had a clear advantage by this point and were winning random special elections. New Jersey and Virginia were not difficult. That doesn't exist now, and the party is getting warning signs that its advantage for the midterms is slipping.

"No Kings" has nothing to do with Trump being a monarch or the Democratic Party's claims that they don't want a monarchy. Democrats have proven they're nothing more than a corrupt oligarchical party at this point, dealing with radical socialist insurgents.

We solved the kings issue 250 years ago. That was when real Americans stood on real beliefs and fought for something. The "No Kings" rally is a party trying to claim relevance at a time when it's leaderless. That's a terrifying notion for actual Democrats in leadership positions.

Meanwhile, everyone else is watching (or suffering through) the football season.

I'm glad Democrats can protest and march peacefully, though. Conservatives are having to roll out security and other protections because assassination attempts and attacks on federal agents continue to grow from people claiming to believe in "No Kings."

" A free people [claim] their rights, as derived from the laws of nature."
Thomas Jefferson