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The “No Kings: Vote Early” weekend protests were sold as pure, nonpartisan get-out-the-vote affairs, like a love-in for midterms.
Organizers handed out toolkits full of solemn rules in advance of the big day: focus on early voting for everyone, no candidate endorsements, no partisan language, no “vote blue,” no campaign materials, no speakers who are actively running for office (even if they claim to take the candidate “hat” off), no personal attacks on elected officials, and absolutely no centering the events on protest or preferred electoral outcomes.
They even distributed do’s and don’ts.
Do emphasize early voting plans. Don't only center on protest. Don’t throw personal attacks. Don’t reference any candidate or campaign. Don’t discuss Trump as an individual rather than an officeholder. Don’t make it about “vote them out” or a Democratic Congress. Keep it nonviolent and lawful.
Hosts were supposed to police this, but instead, Connecticut Democrats treated the rules as mere suggestions — the same way they treat federal immigration laws.
Congressman Jim Himes, who is seeking re-election here in the 4th District, spoke at a number of events in Fairfield County. Stephanie Thomas, the Democrat Secretary of the State who is also on the ballot, took the stage in Newtown. Luke Bronin, the Democrat who beat John Larson for the 1st District congressional nomination, put his campaign logo on pictures of the Middletown No Kings action. These were hardly the only candidates making the rounds.
Democrat town committees and candidates from all around the state posted photos of participants holding “VOTE DEMOCRAT” signs alongside images of Trump labeled “End MAGA Madness.”
Did they miss the Indivisible planning calls when they reviewed the rules?
The protest signs made a mockery of their very own toolkits. “86 47.” “F*CK 47.” “F*CK TRUMP.” A hand-lettered sign asking when “he shoots himself in the bunker.” A sexually crude “LOVE DICK / LOVE TATERS / HATE DICTATORS.” An ANTIFA club-wielding man holding a bat chasing a swastika-stick man: “FIGHTING FASCIST SINCE WWII.” “TRAITOR IN CHIEF.” “NAZI” with Trump’s face crossed out. "ICE IS THE AMERICAN GESTAPO."
And it just went on and on like that. These are the exact kinds of personal attacks and partisan messages the toolkits warned against using.
Heck, Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin — a central figure in the No Kings network — told organizers panicking about media attention to go ahead and “make it about Trump,” use strong language, and create conflict. Separately, he described Democrat candidates as “quite good” and Republican ones as “quite trash.” His own official guidance said the exact opposite. Yet when pressed, organizers still insisted everything was nonpartisan. The gaslighting is off the charts with this crowd.
It was the same as every other No Kings protest we’ve attended in Connecticut: angry, hateful, self-righteous crowds convinced they were the last line of defense “saving our democracy.” The October 17 version simply slapped a thin “Vote Early” wrapper on the same people, the same groups, and the same messaging. Nothing fundamentally changed.
The rules themselves mostly existed so the activists could feel good about their own participation — a way to insist it was all nonpartisan and civic-minded while they did exactly what they’d always done. It’s the old George Costanza line from Seinfeld: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Murphy was miffed that Meta temporarily took down the No Kings page on protest day, calling it “outrageous” and something that belonged on a January investigation list. All we’ve got to say is cry harder, Chrissy. Plenty of us watched our accounts get restricted, throttled, or permanently banned during the COVID plandemic for sharing truthful information.
Funny how the rules only seem to matter when they hurt Murphy’s side. Of course, that’s the exact kind of behavior we’d expect from a king. The No Kings protesters said they were rejecting unaccountable power, and have been since 1776. But the truth is they just want that power all to themselves.
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