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“No Kings” Redux: Necessary But Insufficient (and Somewhat Misdirected)

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20.10.2025

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Back in June, I attended the first “No Kings” rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second.

Positive differences:

While crowd estimates always vary, this rally definitely turned more people out than the last one. Part of that might have to do with University of Florida students having been home for the summer in June, but back in class now. Then again, this was also football homecoming weekend at UF, so “No Kings” was only the SECOND-biggest event in town. At both events, the crowd age definitely trended much older than “college kids.”

This event also seemed more heavily focused than the first on opposition to the Trump administration’s........

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