No Kings

Zohran Mamdani pictured with Siraj Wahhaj, an Imam with ties to the 1993 World Trade Center terrorist attack

For two years, our country has been overrun with pro-Palestinian protests in our streets and on our college campuses, speaking against Israel’s military operations in Gaza. They have objected to Israel’s response to the October 7 deadly terrorist attack, as they attempted to root out the Hamas terrorists who killed over 1,400 Israeli citizens, and liberate the remaining Israeli hostages. People on the left have been protesting to bring awareness to the unintended deaths of Palestinians civilians that have occurred during these operations. They were calling for an immediate cease-fire to stop the killing. Not a day went by without us hearing about an innocent Palestinian who has been killed in Gaza. People even set themselves on fire in protest of Israel’s military actions there.

Last week, Donald Trump brokered a peace deal between Hamas and Israel, in which Hamas returned all of the remaining hostages, and a cease-fire was declared. Israel withdrew from Gaza, and Hamas and the Palestinian Authority took over. In the last week, hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians, have been executed in the streets by Hamas and the Palestinian authority. And the people who have been hectoring us about a cease-fire in order to protect the lives of Palestinians, have not said a word about the intentional killing of these innocent Palestinians. This proves that the pro-Palestinian protesters do not give a damn about one Palestinian life. They only cared about painting Israel as the villain, and Hamas as the victim. That was their only goal in their protests. To them, it’s okay if innocent Palestinian civilians are killed, just as long as the killers are Hamas or some other Islamic radical group.

We know what their true agenda is, and it is not saving the lives of innocent Palestinians nor is it bringing peace to the Middle East. Their main goal through their protests is to destroy of the country of Israel, and to rid the world of the Jewish race. That is their agenda. They will front some other heart-wrenching cause to get uneducated and uninformed people in the West to side with them, but their agenda is the elimination of the state of Israel, and the elimination of every Jewish person on the planet. That is all they are about. And once they are finished with Israel and the Jews, they are coming after the United States, and you and I.

This brings me to the “No Kings” protests that went on this past weekend throughout our country. If it wasn’t so scary and threatening to the United States, what they were doing would be a complete joke. The people on the left actually held “No Kings” rallies in America, rallies to protest against authoritarian rule. The people on the left did this – the people on the left. Everything the left is about today, is authoritarian rule. Their entire agenda is to impose their worldview on the rest of us. They are the ones who want to continue to raise our taxes, increase regulations, expand the size, the breadth and the power of the federal government; they are the ones who not only engage in, but also applaud political assassinations. They are the ones who are for censorship of any person who express any political thought that they disagreed with, and of candidates from the opposing political party who they despise.

The people at the No Kings protests are the ones who continually trash the United States Constitution – a document which was written specifically to prevent an authoritarian takeover of our country – they deem it invalid because it was written 250 years ago by white racist, misogynist men. In September, Democrat Senator Tim Kaine said that our rights are not inalienable and do not come from God, as it is written in our founding documents, but he said our rights solely “come from our laws or our governments”, meaning the politicians. Kaine and many on the left believe it is the politicians who determine what our natural rights are, not God, not natural law. That sounds an awful lot like politicians acting like supreme beings, you know, like kings.

The left is all about authoritarian rule. They are so impressed with their own virtue, and their own intelligence, that they believe that they have the right to dictate and determine everyone else’s life. There is only two aspects of life that the left wants to ensure that the government cannot infringe upon – drug use and abortions. Everything else, the left wants the government to control. The people on the left are determined for the government to take over our healthcare system, controlling 1/6 of our economy. They want the government involved in medical decisions of private citizens. And if you don’t think that can happen, the No Kings protesters are the ones who want the government to make the decision of whether a child should have irreversible sex change procedures. In many blue states, the state can take a child away from his or her parents and transition the child into the opposite gender without the consent and many times even the knowledge of the parents. We are told by the left that our children do not belong to their parents, they belong to the state.

Do not think that the government having the power of individual citizens healthcare will not be used by the left for their own political purposes. You post the wrong thing on Facebook, and you don’t get your medicine; you voted for the wrong person, and you’re on a waiting list for six months to get that operation that you need. You don’t think the leftist in our country will not resort to that. Of course they will. That’s why they want to control over healthcare. They don’t care about individual citizens getting the care they need. They only care about them getting themselves more power over you and I.

The left’s love for authoritarian rule reared its ugly head during Covid. The leftist politicians forced us to wear masks, locked us down in our homes, shut down our businesses, shut down our churches, arrested priests for holding a mass, arrested citizens for going to the beach, fired employees who refused to take the government mandated experimental medicine, prevented people from visiting their grandmothers as she was passing away, dictated to people how, when and with whom they could celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. And none of the No Kings protestors objected to any of this government authoritarianism, in fact, many of them were spying on and ratting out their neighbors to the government when they did not comply with the state dictates.

So, these protests are a lot like the pro-Palestinian protests. The protesters do not care about not having a King rule our country, they just don’t like who the current President is. They would love to have a king. You ask everyone at the No King protests, if they would like to have a King Obama, and the overwhelming majority of the people would say, absolutely. On June 8, 2012, CNN’s Dean Obeidallah penned an op-ed entitled, “Liberals want Obama to be a King, not a President”. This was not some far-right blogger or a Fox News contributor, Obeidallah was one of CNN’s leading leftists. Not one person on the left objected or protested when Obama, very forcibly stated that he had “a phone and a pen” and threatened the Republican Congress that he was willing to legislate by executive fiat if they didn’t give him what he wanted. None of them said a word when Obama ordered the murder of an American citizen on foreign soil without due process. They were all okay with Obama ruling like a king. They just do not like when Trump rules like a President.

The people at the No Kings protest in New York City just nominated a full-blown communist for mayor of the city, Zohran Mamdani. He has stated that, if elected, he is going to levy higher taxes on white communities than on communities of color. He is for ending private property rights. He is for government ownership of industry. He is for price controls. He is for rent controls. He is for defunding the police. He is in favor of implementing every single one of the failed socialist and communist policies in our biggest and most prosperous city. And in the end, he wants to impose sharia law on the city and the rest of the country. If you want to have a No King’s protest, you should be in New York City protesting against Mamdani. He wants to be the king, he wants to be the dictator, he wants to be the authoritarian. He wants the state to own everything. That’s what it means when you eliminate private property, everything is owned by the state, and if everything is owned by the state, then every citizen is owned by the state. There are no individual rights, everything comes from the state. They own you; they dictate to you. That is what the No Kings protestors in New York City are voting for.

They accuse Trump of wanting to be a king simply because he closed our borders, and is deporting non-citizens who have broken our laws and entered our country illegally. That does not make him a king. In fact, it means that he understands the importance of sovereignty, not only a country’s sovereignty, but each individual’s sovereignty.

Trump is clearly not acting like a king. Do Kings and dictators broker 8 peace deals, ending 8 wars? Remember, Obama started 5 wars in the Middle East when he was President. Do Kings and dictators cut taxes like Trump has done? No. They raise them like Democrats. Do Kings and dictators cut government regulations like Trump has done? No. They increase them like Democrats. Do Kings and dictators reduce the size of government like Trump has done? No. They increase the size of government like Democrats. Countries with kings do not allow No Kings protests. By holding these protests, they disproved their entire point of their protests. These protests have demonstrated that Trump is not governing like a king, but simply a very consequential President that the protestors do not like. 

Trump is liberating our country from the tyranny of the left’s insanity. He’s liberating us from the scourge of open borders which poisons our communities with drugs, which floods our cities with criminal aliens and sex traffickers, which cedes control over our border and our cities to drug cartels.  Trump is liberating us from the tyranny of the LGBTQ community which forces us to think and say things that we don’t believe, and censors us expressing what we do believe. Trump is liberating us from the tyranny of the race hustlers who force DEI on companies, schools and government agencies, requiring them to hire people based on their race or gender or lifestyle, and not on their competency or experience. Trump is liberating us from the tyranny of the climate change insanity, which seeks to tax us into poverty, control the energy supply, and dictate every aspect of our lives through carbon taxation.

Make no mistake, the left loves kings, they love authoritarians, they love dictators, just as long as the king is dictating their agenda upon the rest of us. They don’t believe in free speech; they don’t believe in freedom; they don’t believe in self-determination; they believe in their far-left agenda, and they want to imposed that on the rest of society, and they hate Trump because he is doing the exact opposite. He is liberating the country from the far-left tyrannies. And only to a far-left wacko sees that as ruling like a king.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.