Thinking on my feet: No Kings
Today, Saturday March 28th 2026, is apparently a momentous day for people who are protesting what is, at least at this point, impossible to exist in our nation. The rally cry “No Kings” makes me wonder how much all those earnest people know about the basic structure and principles of the United States of America’s governance system. I fear that the last 25 years of anemic civics education has begun to rear its ugly head.
I admit that it is an empowering feeling to be crusading against a king. The problem is, regardless of what their sponsors and/or influencers claim and teach, there is no king in America to resist and a monarchy is impossible – barring a genuine insurrection with real guns armies instead of cane-wielding baby boomers or rioting crowds. Even the looting, burning, and violence of the 2020 “peaceful protests” across 48 of the 50 largest cities in the country, did not qualify as an insurrection.
The truth is that our constitutional representative republic is structured in such a way that no individual can achieve such a stranglehold. Do any of these good people remember the serial impeachments of Donald Trump or Watergate? Do they understand the balance of powers or the independence of the judiciary? The fact is, it is impossible for any president to take on the function of Congress or steamroll the decisions of the judiciary. Unlike the parliamentary systems of the rest of the governments of the world, he cannot dissolve his government and form a new one. Nor can he appoint Supreme Court justices or shutter Congress.
You want my opinion? I knew you did. The ignorance of well-taught middle school Civics has made for the useful people who are packing the streets with totally meaningless protests. Their angst is not really what drives the funding behind the protests by organizations such as Act Blue or Code Pink or, for that matter, George Soros’s grandson himself. Their goal has been, and always will be, in line with Marxist ideology. They are committed to a distorted belief that the only way to make change is to cause the destruction of what exists so that a utopian future can be instituted. And guess who sits at the top of such a glorious future – a supreme leader or oligarchy! Because, in the end, no population can survive without leadership. It just depends on whether they want to have a say or whether they want to follow a utopian king.