The Fulcrum, Oct. 19, 2025 — by Ronald L. Hirsch
Hirsch effectively argues that No Kings Day stands firmly in the American tradition of resisting concentrated, unaccountable power. He revisits the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars against King George—dissolving representative bodies, subordinating courts, swelling patronage and enforcement—and maps those warnings onto today’s executive overreach and contempt for checks and balances. Despite attempts to smear the protests as extremist, the piece frames them as a civic duty: a peaceful defense of constitutional balance through participation, not violence. The takeaway: opposing would-be monarchy isn’t anti-American—it’s the point of the American experiment.
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