October 24, 2025
Basic Civics for the No King Protesters
By Dan Hegelund
Picture this: thousands of Americans standing in the streets, screaming that they live under tyranny. They're holding professionally printed signs. Television cameras capture every chant. Social media amplifies every accusation. Police stand by, doing nothing. And yet these protesters are absolutely convinced -- down to their bones -- that they're living under a king. Welcome to Trump Derangement Syndrome, where self-contradiction becomes performance art.
There's just one problem. If Trump were actually a king, they'd all be in jail. Every single one of them. No trial, no lawyers, no cable news coverage of their arrests. Just silence.
Real kings don't allow street protests outside their palaces. There would be no government shutdown -- because kings don't need congressional approval for budgets. And there certainly wouldn't be court case after court case with Trump deferring to Supreme Court rulings, because kings don't defer to courts.
The protesters reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of how American government was designed to work.
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