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Democrats Rally Around The Country
Last Saturday, it is estimated that millions of people joined in events large and small all around the country, spearheaded by more than 200 progressive organizations like Indivisible and the ACLU, to decry what they feel is constitutional overreach by President Donald Trump.
Inside the Rally Circus
Picture this: streets clogged with inflatable crowns, dinosaur costumes, and signs screaming “No One Above the Law.” Cities around the country and certainly up and down California turned protests into block-party spectacles with music, dances, and celebrity cameos. Jane Fonda, who has protested every Republican President going back generations, rallied the crowds in Los Angeles another multi-generational protest speaker Joan Baez (fresh off of her performance the famed 1968 Woodstock protest) spoke and performed at a San Francisco event that the San Francisco Standard described, in part, this way: “The protest was like a Halloween party, with attendees coming dressed as teddy bears, chickens, parrots, dinosaurs, and Indiana Jones.”
Media Does Their Part - No Surprise
Media hyped it as the “biggest protest ever,” with minimal arrests and police mostly observing—ironic, given the freedoms on full display. But beneath the joy? A scripted narrative of impending tyranny. Of course, the mainstream media yesterday was happy to oblige the Democrats, with lots of free positive press. I’m still looking for the headline: “In Shocking Display, Democrats Protest Republican President.”
Unmasking the Autocrat Illusion
The liberal hardliners who were the organizers and mouthpieces for this rally do not want to say the quiet part out loud: President Trump is not acting outside of his powers under the Constitution, says the Supreme Court. In over 70% of the dozens of cases taken up to the Supreme Court on their so-called Shadow Docket [ [link removed] ] (cases that the court chooses to weigh in on quickly, at least temporarily, rather than through their standard process), the justices have sided with the President. (To be fair, many of these are interim decisions while cases go through the lengthier normal process.) And where they have not, the administration has complied with the courts’ decisions. Maybe when one party sweeps control of the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives it feels like nothing is going the right way to activists in the party out of power. But it’s not called authoritarianism - it’s called losing.
Maybe when one party sweeps control of the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives it feels like nothing is going the right way to activists in the party out of power. But it’s not called authoritarianism - it’s called losing.
So it turns out that to the extent that these organizers have portrayed the President as a dictator, shelving the Constitution and acting like a monarch, that is factually incorrect. But facts don’t get in the way of California Governor Gavin Newsom, the self-appointed Trump troller-in-chief, who said on X: “7 million Americans turned out yesterday to peacefully protest a monarchy.”
President Trump is undoubtedly guilty of pushing the envelope, seeing how far he can push policies under his duties and responsibilities as outlined in Article II of the Constitution. But as much as Baez, Fonda, and Newsom do not want to admit it, he is not feeding our Constitution through a shredder — not even close. Trump is not in the White House because of a Divine Right of Kings; he is there as our duly elected President.
Dems Protesting A GOP President? By All Means
I think everyone is willing to admit that America is politically divided—bigly. And it is understandable that if you do not like President Trump’s policies, it’s only more infuriating that Trump’s style is very direct and abrasive with those with whom he disagrees. You can make a long list of things that Trump has done in his second term that would, of course, upset liberals. Most of them are things he campaigned on doing, so they are unsurprising. If there is any surprise, we have a politician who keeps his campaign promises. Go out and wave your signs, and dress up like animals. The same constitution that effectively sets out and constrains a President’s powers also guarantees all Americans’ rights to protest that President.
So, Does It Matter?
And so at the end of the day, the “news” of the weekend is that there were a lot of liberals, upset that Kamala Harris lost the election and unhappy with President Trump, using it as an excuse to get out and get some fresh air, put on a dinosaur suit, and incorrectly call Trump a King. Trump won 58% of the electoral vote and 77,302,580 votes across the country (millions more than Harris). There are 1189 days left in the second Trump Presidency. And then there will be another President. To be sure if another Republic succeeds Trump, Joan will break out her guitar, and Hanai Jane her bullhorn. As well they should. They have the right to protest whomever they would like. They are not, however, entitled to their own facts.

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