“This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, claiming that the Democrats were for some reason waiting for the rally to happen before negotiating to end the government shutdown. “No Kings equal no paychecks.”
“We call it the ‘Hate America’ Rally that’ll happen Saturday,” Speaker Mike Johnson said that same day. “Let’s see who shows up for that. I bet you you see pro-Hamas supporters, I bet you you’ll see antifa types, I bet you you’ll see Marxists in full display, the people who don’t want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic. And we do.”
But much to the chagrin of the GOP, the No Kings rally in Washington, D.C., was not unhinged, not very far left, and entirely peaceful. The atmosphere was extremely energetic and family friendly for both young and old. People walked slowly, often with kids in tow. Countless attendees wore large inflatable costumes, inspired by the Portland frog. There was live music, tabling, and speeches by Bill Nye, Mehdi Hasan, and Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy, among others. And while the event was massive, the vibe was closer to that of a lively farmer’s market on a nice Sunday morning than it was to whatever the right was trying so desperately to convince people it would be.
One of those people was a 49-year-old woman wearing a massive inflatable costume of a bald eagle dressed as Uncle Sam. “It’s absurd. This is everyday Americans who are looking at … every day there’s something new that is illegal or anti-constitutional,” the eagle said when I asked her about the GOP’s antifa and Hamas allegations. “The most American thing I think we can do is vote, and then the second most American thing you can do is peaceful protest.... I am proud to be an American, and I am proud to be part of this country, and I am an incredible supporter of the United States Constitution.”
“[No Kings] means that we should have three powers, as per the Constitution, judicial, congressional, and executive, and they balance each other. And right now there is no balance,” she said. “One person, followed by all the little sycophants and the puppet masters, is making decisions that are not being balanced. And so the White House is playing king.”
“It is antifa. It’s anti-fascism. We have a government that’s very quickly going into a fascist non-democracy,” Darla continued. “My mother served in World War II. She was an anti-fascist. She served against a fascist government in Germany and in Italy, you know, the triad there. So, yeah, it’s anti fascism. Give me a break.”
Chantel, an African American woman in her forties, worked for the Air Force as a civilian for 20 years before taking a buyout after receiving DOGE’s infamous “fork in the road” email. She attended the event with her mother, Janet Winn, and was holding a sign that read “Fight the Radical Right.”
Lee, a Fairfax, Virginia, resident, was fired from his job as a federal contractor for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “It was wiped off the map, no conversation, nothing,” he said. He was there with his wife Laura, a public school teacher. They rejected the notion of being antifa, or being on George Soros’s payroll.
Chuck Epps, 76, a retired local journalist and schoolteacher from Richmond, made a similar point to distance himself from such claims, recalling his experiences as an anti-war protester in the 1960s.
“I think there’s clearly a far-left fringe that does do violent things, as I would argue that there’s a more predominant right-wing fringe that does a lot more violence and advocates for it. But that’s not what antifascism is about. They’re trying to demonize everybody who’s opposed to this administration’s objectives. It’s gaslighting.”
I spoke to Sam Nelson, 33, who has been a member of the D.C. Metro DSA for ten years, about his group’s place in this movement—especially given that the Trump administration seems to have targeted them more than many of the other groups in attendance.
“The ruling class is very collective. They love working together. The ruling class is also very internationalist. They love working with right-wing oligarchs in other countries around the world. They work together. And we’ve got to work together all the same.... You’ve got to go where the people are,” he continued. “Look how many people are out here, particularly federal workers. Go where the people are mobilizing. And that might look different depending on where you live, and that’s okay.... There are many, many roads that lead to Rome. And many paths into the socialist movement.”
“It’s the ultimate gaslighting of America that this administration is trying to pull. Antifa are the people he doesn’t like,” Epps told me. “It’s gaslighting, and it’s coming from the absolute highest levels of U.S. government.”
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