A leftist logo depicts a clumsily drawn crown with a red cross through it. It looks like a demand for a ban on the joke coronet worn by the comedic monarch in Burger King ads. The words accompanying the logo are “No Kings.”

The No Kings campaign is, however, not a commercial and is the latest brain spasm of those who argue that President Donald Trump is bent on ending democracy and replacing it with his own autocracy. Come to think of it, this falsehood suggests an incidental connection with Burger King, in that the fast-food chain makes whoppers, and the No Kings lefties tell whoppers.

To skewer Trump, No Kings uses mockery that its members apparently think lighthearted but is actually leaden in the extreme. And No Kings rallies are no joke. A bystander was

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