John Bickley

This is a special edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now for a look back politically at 2025 and a look ahead to 2026 is Paul Kangor, editor of the American Spectator and political science professor at Grove City College, where he's also the senior director of the Institute of Faith and Freedom.

Paul, you need more titles.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Well, we love hearing that, and we'll hold you to that.

So look, this has been a crazy year.

We wanted to kind of stop and look back at it politically, specifically the No Kings movement and some of the anti-Trump efforts that we saw over the course of the year.

Big picture first, how effective do you think the demonstrations, the activism against Trump were this year?

Did they actually work?

Right, and there's positive connotations with a king.

We want the return of the king.

There's fascination with the royal family in England for a reason.

People actually kind of like this.

No Hitlers would have been much better.

It's not Harry and Meghan.

All right.

So in terms of marketing strategy, maybe not a great move, but they were very active.

They were organized.

Does it seem like the left and Democrats have become better organized over the course of the last year or not?

There's always been a sense that they do have a high level of activism and organization.