Paul Kengor

They're popular.

Well, it's not Harry.

It's the other guy.

It's the other guy.

That's right.

Well, I think they're just natural activists, right?

They're natural ideologues, they're natural agitators.

In fact, Ben Shapiro and I talked about this the last time we spoke.

We were talking about Russell Kirk, the conservative mind and conservatism.

And Russell Kirk famously said that conservatism should not be called an ideology, it's more an attitude, right?

the idea of like an enduring moral order.

Whereas ideology is for ideologues, and ideologues are on the left, right?

So when you think of ideology and ideologues, you think of the French Revolution, you think of radical progressives.

And so for the American left, they're just doing what they always do.

And so in a way, No Kings was just the latest manifestation of whatever slogan or protest movement they wanted to come up with.

I thought a silly one.

But, yeah, the one thing you can count on, as sure as the sun coming up tomorrow, is that American leftists are going to go out and act like leftists, which means they're going to go out and protest, and often act like a mob.

Who was it?

The famous monarchist, Erich von Kuhnholdt-Ledden.

said something like, this is why he was pro-monarchy and anti-democracy.