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The Latest ‘No Kings’ Protest Is The Sound Of A Tired Old Thing Trying To Not Die

They speak in a vernacular of protest out of habit and as a cultural identity, but they have no idea what they’re protesting. They’re very angry about the, you know, stuff.

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The American political left as a cultural formation, and the Democratic Party as an institution, have sunk into a style of oppositionalism that contains no opposition. They speak in a vernacular of protest because they speak in a vernacular of protest, out of habit and as a cultural identity, but they have no idea what they’re protesting. They’re very angry about the, you know, stuff. Something something Trump something something.

Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen join together for ‘No Kings’ rally in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/iQvUGulV4T— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 29, 2026

Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen join together for ‘No Kings’ rally in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/iQvUGulV4T

At three o’clock, the nurse brings pudding. Comfortable and wealthy people, many decades into their experience of affluence and safety, are putting their bodies on the line to oppose fascism for a couple hours before the driver takes them back to their mansions.

Before I get into the ideological incoherence of the latest stupid spasm, let’s go back a bit. After the 2014 death of Michael Brown during a confrontation with a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, college campuses slid into a year of protest. At the University of Missouri, students occupied a campus quad in support of a supposed hunger strike against systemic racism, demanding the resignation of the president of the university system.

As they protested against the university administration, student protesters were supported by … university administration. As a report to the university’s oversight board would later say, “the University, at the campus administration’s direction, provided electricity and heaters to the protesters for their safety and comfort.” Famously, a lunatic media studies professor protected protesters from embarrassing media exposure, screaming for “some muscle” to remove student journalists who entered the quad.

Students protesting against the system were nurtured, pampered, and sheltered by the system. Their cosplay assault on an institution was wrapped in a warm hug by an institution that welcomed the performative attack. Don’t worry, kids, the university administration assures you........

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