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The “No Kings” demonstrations this past weekend showed the future belongs to the right

Contrasting the protesters from the left and the right
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This past weekend hundreds of thousands of leftist protesters gathered in numerous cities nationwide to protest Donald Trump under the strange banner of “No Kings” that somehow portrayed Trump as a new king attempting to subvert democracy. Numerous commenters on the webpage have documented the protest’s emptiness, noting that it offered no real policy options except a desire to have Donald Trump removed from office (violently in many cases), even though he was properly elected by law.

Many others, including an NBC anchor, also could not help noticing the aged nature of the protesters.

So from what we can see from our viewpoint here in the studio and talking to our crew on the ground and some people I know who are there, this is an older crowd. There’s not a lot of folks, and granted, it’s a big crowd here, I’m not good at estimating, but it’s definitely over 2000, maybe close to 3000. We can’t see everyone, but it’s an older crowd, a lot of white hair you see out there, Q-tips, as we used to call them in the business. They are out protesting, and not a lot of young people.

None of this is a surprise. The strongest base of the Democratic Party is the 1960s baby boom crowd that protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s, celebrated sex, drugs, and rock & roll, and has never found a Democrat they did not love blindly. For the past decade this aging Baby Boom generation has been repeatedly told to hate Trump, and this past weekend’s demonstration allowed these old hippies the chance to show off how well they have been indoctrinated by the left.

What was far more striking about this event to me however was the contrast between the old, white-haired “No Kings” protesters and the very youthful attendees at every single conservative demonstration or event. The bottom picture to the right comes from a “Student Action Summit” in July, but it is typical of most conservative get-togethers. The crowd tends to be young, enthused, and covering a wide spectrum of demographics.

One could argue that I am comparing a general protest with a student event, but this trend is not limited to just such student conferences. The make-up of all recent rightwing public protests and events has trended young. And following Kirk’s murder, his organization received more than 120,000 requests to open chapters in schools and colleges across the United States.

The young have become intrigued by conservative ideas, and want to know more. And they also appear quite uninterested in what the left has to say, because what the left has been saying for more than a decade has been limited to only one note: “We hate Donald Trump!” That position is hardly an agenda on which to build a new world for the next generation.

This contrast tells us where the future lies, and it is not with the baby boom generation (from which I come). Their time appears over, with this last spasm of Trump hate their final gasp for power. Instead, the trend says the future will belong to the new young generation of conservatives, many of whom are embracing the old-fashioned Judeo-Christian religious traditions of the Bible and the American Dream.

I admit that I might be grasping at straws, and the future will not be so bright. Certainly it is dangerous to extrapolate a future from this single data point.

And yet, it does seem real, and if so, expect there to be major political shifts in the coming decade. The cultural and political landscape is about to change drastically, and hopefully in ways that will bring this country back to the values that made it the wealthiest and most prosperous nation ever seen in human history.

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7 comments

  • NO KINGS INDEED: A THREAT TO “DEMOCRACY”

    Now I have written about this several times in the past and I guess I will be writing about it again today.

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/no-kings-indeed-a-threat-to-democracy

    The Democrat party leadership and the people who follow their direction and their strategy in acquiring and retaining political power in America chant “NO KINGS”, referring to the Trump administration. But what they do not take one second to realize is to take a look in the mirror.

    And if the people were to actually look Objectively into that mirror and actually see themselves and what the political party that they are aligned with demand they would clearly see themselves as being radical, authoritarian and much like a monarch I.E. a KING!

    Remember: 2015 the Democrat party machine unceremoniously removed the Democrat party’s people’s choice to run against D.J. Trump (R) and that was the “Independent” party Communist, Bernie Sanders (I). Replaced him with “the next in line” Ma Barker (Hillary Clinton). Forget about what the people wanted.

    (How do you know that Bernie Sanders is a bonified full blood committed Communist who just hides behind the “I” Independent party designation? His words and the fact that he honeymooned intentionally and symbolically with his brand-new wife in 1988 in……………….MOSCOW while the Cold War raged!!!

    B. Sanders: “That was a strange honeymoon”)

    WHEN THEY START COMPARING A COMMUNIST TO JESUS YOU KNOW TROUBLE IS COMING

    And remember once more: 2020, who did the people of the Democrat party want to run against D.J. Trump? The then current president who beat Trump previously, Joe Biden (D). And who did the party machine again unceremoniously install after Nancy Pelosi “made the phone call” and removed President Biden from contention as the candidate to represent the Democrat party? Vice President Kamala Harris. The absolutely worst, most uncomfortable and incompetent candidate to stand for the presidency in American history. She would symbolically do just fine, leadership or competence not required.

    Why is that? Because the Democrat party runs internally as a political party monarchy meat puppet master where the everyday American people who foolishly adhere to their edicts are ignored and told what they are going to do, what they are to believe and who they are mandated to hate, and of course, who they will be voting for. The people of the Democrat party are but mindless drone surfs in the Democrat party machines political party power Kingdom.

    No Kings Day Indeed.

    President D.J. Trump is definitely a threat to Democracy, the Democrat party’s radical self-serving perverted version of “Democracy”.

    Are you Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 10/19/25

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  • Richard M

    This is what I have observed first hand of the various left-wing protests I have seen in DC this year – definitely older, very white. (And with a couple exceptions, very sparse.) This is in contrast to the protests we saw during Trump’s first term, which of course were often big, and fairly diverse demographically.

    It’s like the whole thing is just burned out now. Lots of young and minority voters here in DC* may well still dislike Trump, but they feel a lot less motivated to show up at protests than they did in 2017-2020.
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    * Note the geographic qualifier. There’s really no place in the rest of the country like DC. (For which, in most respects, we can be thankful.)

  • F

    It is not necessarily true that with age, comes wisdom.

    As has been pointed out elsewhere, these fools would not have been allowed to protest anything if Donald Trump were truly acting like a king.

    Like him or hate him, Trump has followed the law, often to a fault.

  • pzatchok

    As the last of the hippies die off the last people in the democrat party will be the young people we see now.

    Aoc represents that new group of entitled lefties.
    The ones younger than her want even more entitlements. They don’t even want to work anymore.. They want free schooling, free housing, free utilities, free transportation, and a consequence free life style.

    They need a big daddy to put his foot down and teach them what life is all about, not some mama protecting them.
    Taking away all their free stuff might just help in this.

  • pzatchok

    As for DC.

    I truly think that ALL the residents should be moved out. The whole of the area should be a totally federally owned and controlled. No private property, no residences, the only roads should only be used by public transportation busses and maybe cabs, more subways.
    Federal employees ride public transport, elected officials might have federally owned private transport to work or at best driving permits like on military bases.
    Tourists would ride public transport.

  • john hare

    “””””They need a big daddy to put his foot down and teach them what life is all about, not some mama protecting them.
    Taking away all their free stuff might just help in this.”””””

    Second sentence takes care of the first. No need to put the foot down as long as they get nothing that they haven’t earned. Even in the cases of family support, it gets old carrying the freeloaders. Or if it doesn’t, let those families carry the freight, not yours via uncle.

    I include immigrants from horrible countries in the no free stuff along with the lazy entitled from here. I’ve heard people say, “we can’t let them starve”. I say, Why Not??? i feel the same way about expensive “free” school K-12 along with universities. I could go on, but if you are in agreement, it’s not necessary. And if you’re not. it’s just annoying.

  • John

    A big factor could be that generation still is unable to comprehend that the TV and newspapers are intentionally lying to them. The younger generations probably received at some media mocking it, or at least some exposure to the other viewpoint.

    I surmise the mainstream propaganda corporate media hyped it up. I wouldn’t know because I deplatformed them .

    The violent rhetoric and outright ignorance from the clips I saw were most disturbing.

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