Large crowds attend 'No Kings' rallies against Trump across US
More than 3,200 events were planned in all 50 states, and organisers hoped it would be the largest single-day protest in US history.
Tens of thousands of anti-Trump protesters have been attending "No Kings" rallies on Saturday across the US.
More than 3,200 events were planned in all 50 states, and organisers hoped it would be the biggest single-day protest in US history.
The words provide the unmissable clues - 'planned in all 50 states' and 'organisers'.
The weird but too familiar aspect is that supposedly intelligent and independent people are willing to be organised in this way and are prepared to rally round an infantile slogan as such as 'No Kings'.
'No Kings' is broad-brush, virtue-signalling, fashionable and effortless. It is propaganda, obviously so, but it works. Are demonstrators generally uneasy about the effect such crude propaganda has on them? No, the slogan is not aimed at people who might be uneasy about succumbing to it. It selects them and we may assume that they don't know they have been selected.
It's propaganda and clearly about generating headlines, but it works well enough to do that, as the organisers knew it would.
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