Notes on No Kings

Yesterday was the No Kings rally, perhaps one of the largest rallies I’ve seen since Trump was first elected. My partner and I went to show support and to hopefully witness a historic moment.

Before going to the rally, there were two narratives I was constantly confronted with. The first, and perhaps the most pervasive, was the constant messaging surrounding violence. I’ll be the first to admit that the U.S. government and its armed forces are some of the most violent forces to have ever existed, however, this rally was never going to be that. It is a permitted event, funded by a pissed off billionaire, and backed by liberal non-profit groups. That doesn’t mean there is no possibility of violence, in fact there was a fatal shooting at the No Kings Rally in Utah by one of the Peacekeepers hired by No Kings organizers, but it was still a far cry from the "chaos" that main stream media has portrayed it to be. Given who the organizers of this rally were, it was never going to be anything c…