One of the many “Great MAGA King” T-shirts out there.
Yesterday was one of the national No Kings protests, in which people took to the streets and publicly objected to the way Donald Trump has been running the country, with minimal pushback from the MAGA Republican-led Congress and MAGA Republican-dominated Supreme Court. I live in Vacaville, which had a sizeable No Kings protest in front of City Hall. Vacaville is pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, so it was interesting to look at the Facebook comments: Moderates and liberals all talking about how nice it was for the people to peaceably assemble and express their grievances, and conservatives either angry or mocking, because they just love the tangerine fascist.
Most conservatives are asking, “What do you mean, ‘No Kings’? Trump’s not a king.” Although I doubt they’re that ignorant of all the “Great MAGA King” memes and merchandise out there. It’s been around since his first term. First time I saw it I thought, “No; people are just messing with conservatives’ heads,” but nope, people willingly purchase and wear crap with Trump as a king on it. Maybe they’re doing it to troll liberals; back in my conservative days that would’ve been my thinking. But there are an awful lot of irony-deprived people out there, who’d wear it because they really would like Trump to be king. A right-wing dictatorship, in which they’d get everything their depraved little hearts have ever wanted, really appeals to them.
Trump’s not a king, but he certainly does love to act like a king. Not just because he decorates everything in tacky gold, and wants people to fawn over him him like courtiers before a shah. For comparison I got out the text of the Declaration of Independence. Does any of George Hanover III’s behavior sound familiar? (For convenience I put numbers and letters before Thomas Jefferson’s bullet points.)
