Nightly, the various news channels tell us the Democrat Party needs to move to the political center to regain success.  The pundits keep talking, but clearly, the people running the Democrat Party aren’t listening.  They’re still clinging to the extreme Left.

In 1964, a right wing extremist, Barry Goldwater, famously proclaimed, ”Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”  He was roundly condemned for what today sounds like a reasonable sentiment.  For the current day Democrat Party, the Goldwater quote might read, “Extremism in hopes of ending liberty is no vice, moderation in regard to any issue is prohibited.

And so, last weekend, as President Trump was presiding over a parade for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, the denizens of the Left were conducting what they called No Kings protests all over the country.

The No Kings movement, according to its organizers, calls for a National Day of defiance.  Here’s some stuff from their website, “They’ve defied our courts (lie), deported Americans (lie), disappeared people off the streets (lie), attacked our civil rights (lie), and slashed our services (lie).  The corruption has gone too far.  No thrones.  No crowns.  No kings.”

“We’re taking action to reject authoritarianism—and show the world what democracy really looks like.  The flag doesn’t belong to President Trump.  It belongs to us.”  I guess that’s so they can burn it.  “We’re inspired by the 3.5% principle: it only takes 3.5% of the population engaging in sustained, strategic protest against authoritarianism to achieve significant political change.”

The 3.5% principle, has been adopted by many climate change groups.  It comes from the writings of Harvard Professor Erica Chenoweth.  The theory is that protest by 3.5% of the population of a country can topple a government.  Three examples cited by Professor Chenoweth are Georgia, the Philippines, Sudan, and Algeria.

If it worked there, it can work here, right?  Not so fast.  In Georgia, protests led to the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who had been installed by a military junta.  Likewise, in Sudan, it toppled a president installed after a military coup.  The 3.5% action in Algeria came after a civil war that killed 3 million people.  And in the Philippines, the protests toppled the government of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who had declared martial law and suspended the constitution to stay in power.

Simply put, the 3.5% principle has never worked to topple a government installed after a free and fair election.  This is so because, places where free and fair elections are held don’t need revolutions to change the government.  You just go vote.

But this glaring flaw in the No Kings argument isn’t the sad part.  What is sad is that the dolts marching in the streets for this No Kings nonsense actually do believe that the Trump Administration is no different than a military dictatorship.

Here’s what it looked like –

I love that last one.  Fear of the law must be why he covered his face.

No Kings partners include a veritable Who’s Who of loony Leftist groups.  There are the usual suspects.  The ACLU;
Common Cause “Immigration enforcement is not law and order, it’s tyranny;” Bernie Sanders and his Political Revolution PAC; 50-50-1 also connected to Bernie, which  Newsweek calls “mostly peaceful;” Families Over Billionaires, which opposes tax cuts.  (Ironically it’s funded by Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss); Greenpeace; MayDayStrong, which supports  “workers over billionaires,” and is pro immigrant (cheap labor for Bernie’s oligarchs); Move On.org (Soros); Planned Parenthood;  350 Action (extremist climate change); and Don’t Frack Your Mother (an anti oil group).

Then there were the labor unions.  the AFT; American Federation of Government Employees (opposes government layoffs); Alliance to Reclaim our Schools (wants to spend more money on a failed educational system); CWA; Postal Workers Union (stamps are going to .78 next month); Care in Action Domestic Workers Union (promotes election of women of color, but not Winsome Sears); and SEIU.

According to the No Kings 3.5% principle, 3.5% of the population can change the government.  In the U.S., that would mean about 1.2 million people in the streets every day.  But not in all 50 States.  Texas and Florida, with 56 million people, or 16.2% of our population, aren’t playing this game.  In Florida, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey eloquently summed up the situation, telling protestors to “protest all you want, but don’t use violence.”

“I’m gonna break it down for you, alright, and if somebody wants to know what I mean by turn violent.  This is what I mean.  If you resist lawful orders, you’re going to jail.  Let me be very clear about that.  If you block an intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going to jail.  If you flee arrest, you’re gonna go to jail tired because we are going to run you down and put you in jail.  If you try to mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it, refusing to let the driver leave in our county, you’re gonna get run over and dragged across the street.

If you spit on us, you are going to the hospital and then to jail. If you hit one of us, you’re going to the hospital and jail and likely will get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs we have here.  If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at.  Because we will kill you, graveyard dead.  We’re not going to play.”

So I guess Texas and Florida don’t count in the 3.5% equation.  In the final analysis, it really doesn’t matter anyway.  1.2 million, or 5 million, or 20 million people protesting the government won’t change the fact that Trump was elected with 77 million votes in a free and fair election.  The government won’t be changed until or unless the Democrats start wining elections again.  And that’s not going to happen if they keep supporting issues that 60 to 90% of the public oppose.

The Dems can stage all the Days of Defiance they want.  If they’re like this last one, they’re just digging their hole deeper.  Picture the contrast.  While the Leftist nuts were marching up and down chanting “No kings.  No crowns,” to combat imaginary government overreach, Trump was presiding over the U.S. Army’s 250th celebration, with a pageant of flyovers, parachutists, and soldiers in period uniforms, telling the true story of the fighting men and women who banished real Kings and crowns from America, and who have kept us free.

Did the Left learn anything from last week’s events?  Likely not.  When viewed through the distorted lens of the Left wing, the contributions of the Army don’t matter.  They marched against Kings and we have no King in America.  Hurray!  We won!  The inconvenient facts are irrelevant.

When asked if he thought he was a King, Donald Trump had the perfect reply.  “I don’t feel like a king.  I have to go through hell to get stuff approved, if I was a King, I wouldn’t be in court all the time.”

So to the motley crew of mindless No Kings marchers, I say, “No Kings?  No shit!