The always erudite Victor David Hanson has written a brilliant summary today of why this past weekend’s “No Kings” events were so patently absurd. It’s entitled “Who Are the Real Kings?” I’ve given you a generous helping of edited excerpts here, but I heartily recommend you read it in its entirety here.
Democrats cry “No Kings” while wielding royal power—raiding rivals, silencing dissent, and crowning heirs without a single vote.
So-called King, Donald Trump, ran in two contested Republican primaries. He ran three times in a general election. …
In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden did not run a typical campaign. He avoided the public, staying ensconced in his basement. He outsourced his campaign to Democratic politicos, donors, and a sycophantic media.
No red state ever sought to remove Joe Biden or Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots. In contrast, twenty-five blue states attempted to take Trump off their ballots.
In 2021, Joe Biden’s DOJ and FBI raided then-former-President Trump’s home. They found only 102 classified documents [Annie note: which, as POTUS, and therefore the ultimate declassification authority, he was legally entitled to have!] among some 14,000 seized, but nevertheless indicted him.
There was no such SWAT raid on Biden’s multiple repositories of illegally removed classified documents. All were in less secure places than at Mar-a-Lago.
Biden removed them over the course of three decades with impunity. At the time, unlike Trump, he had no presidential prerogatives to declassify them.
Special counsel Robert Hur found Biden culpable for the removal of these files but declined to prosecute, claiming that he was too enfeebled to stand trial.
In 2024, the same backroom donors and politicos who had conspired to ensure Biden was the 2020 nominee now, against his wishes, in coup-like fashion, removed him from his own reelection ticket.
Within 48 hours and without a delegate vote, they crowned Kamala Harris as the presumed nominee. Queen Harris had not received a single delegate vote in her disastrous 2020 primary run.
Donald Trump, in 2020, did not sic his Department of Justice on his rival, Joe Biden. Nor during his presidency did his Department of Justice indict any past or future political opponent or ex-president.
In contrast, Kingly Joe Biden’s White House helped coordinate 91 indictments of his past and future presidential rival, ex-president Donald Trump. [snip]
Monarchs might order assassinations of U.S. citizens abroad and surveil the phone records of Associated Press reporters.
Obama did both during his tenure. …
Why then do the Democrats’ “No Kings” protests claim that Trump is a monarch?
Answer: [Annie note: Go read the entire article for the answer! It’s only fair!]