"No Kings, No Tyrants, & No Trump!" Says the Voice of Unheard

(NEW YORK, NY) – Over the weekend, as Trump celebrated his birthday, the Nation was engulfed in the largest single day of protests that it has ever seen (since the Women’s March in 2017, on Trump’s inauguration.) Across America people made their previously unheard voices heard, and they resoundingly are saying that Trump’s attempt at tyrannical reign will not stand, and that America will remain free of Kings as it has been since 1776. Trump’s attempt at a military parade has also been universally seen as a national embarrassment with little to low attendance. Mr. Donald Trump’s approval ratings have also dropped to as low as 38% in some polls, with a sharp drop in approval ratings as Mr. Trump sics the Marines and National Guard on largely peaceful protestors in Los Angeles, protesting the disappearing, deportation, and detention of their neighbors and friends. 

Trump has largely seen the writing on the wall, and is beginning to backtrack on his draconian and medieval deportation policies, that are tanking his approval ratings and will surely lose him and his party dozens of seats in the house and senate in the upcoming midterms. Mr. Trump and his party are cowardly wielding the power of the state in order to manufacture a crisis and scramble for further powers that cannot constitutionally be given to him, as troops fire on peaceful protestors at home, tear gas crowds, and intentionally shoot rubber bullets at the press corps. It’s no wonder that America has been added to the Human Rights Watchlist by the United Nations. 

This all comes as there is real crisis and pain abroad, as Israel and Iran have begun a bombing campaign that many less-then experts have declared is sure to cause a third world war, one which Israel is determined to drag the United States into against the will of the vast majority of Americans, who oppose the expansion of any American military involvement, and especially disapprove of involvement in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The involvement of America in such a conflict unilaterally directed by the President against the vast popular will of the majority and without approval from Congress to engage in a war (as it almost certainly will be), would be exactly the type of usurpation of power that America raged against this Saturday on No Kings Day. 

International observers and domestic ones alike have seen that America is already far down the path to autocracy and authoritarianism, whether Fascism can maintain its grip of control for long is as of yet unknown, protests like those we saw over the weekend, and have been seeing consistently in Los Angeles and major cities ever since Mr. Trump’s administration has decided to antagonize the protestors and sic Federal Armed forces on them will be the backbone and demonstration of popular discontent of Mr. Trump’s administration will continue to make him pivot further from his policies of aggressive, repressive, and morally reprehensible deportations. 

It is with these protests, alongside the recent surge of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as a likely and strong contender for the democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City that form the backbone of the great hope that I now feel in regards to the brevity of Mr. Trump’s legacy. America may now be the country that voted for him and his autocracy, but we can just as quickly turn on him, and reassert democracy's primacy, reassert the necessity of checks and balances, and reassert the dominance of Americans' right to discontent and protest. It is for these reasons that I truly believe America will get better, and will get better soon at that