"House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took to the podium Friday morning and proved the point before the first protest sign was even printed. Tomorrow, he said, Democrat leaders are going to descend on our capital for their much-anticipated so-called No Kings' rally. We refer to it by its more accurate description the Hate America Rally. The Speaker wasn't responding to the protest. He was preemptively defining it and by extension, defining patriotism itself."
"You're going to bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the Antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left Democrat Party, he said, adding that protesters hate capitalism, they hate our free enterprise system, they hate our principles, they hate the rule of law. In one breath, Johnson turned a protest about power into a morality play about allegiance collapsing democratic disagreement into disloyalty."
"The Hate America Rally, as he branded it, isn't an event anymore; it's a storyline. And that's the point. The reaction reveals a deeper truth about the modern political marketplace: America hasn't just branded patriotism it's confused branding for patriotism. The symbols have swallowed the substance. Love of country now operates like a trademarked asset, and politicians like Johnson have made themselves the rights-holders."
House Speaker Mike Johnson labeled an upcoming No Kings Day protest the "Hate America Rally," preemptively defining the event and patriotism. Demonstrators plan to protest alleged systemic corruption, conflicts of interest tied to President Trump's business holdings, deployment of federal forces in cities without local consent, and the bypassing of congressional oversight via emergency declarations. Johnson grouped protesters with Marxists, socialists, Antifa, anarchists, and pro-Hamas elements and claimed they hate capitalism, free enterprise, principles, and the rule of law. That framing collapses constitutional and policy disputes into questions of loyalty, turning patriotic symbols into branded proof of purity and sidelining substantive debate.
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