Why I’ll Be Marching on No Kings Day

by | Oct 13, 2025 | Opinions & Commentary

Photo by Saad Ahmad, Unssplash

Why I’ll Be Marching on No Kings Day

by | Oct 13, 2025 | Opinions & Commentary

Photo by Saad Ahmad, Unssplash

Next weekend scores of millions of Americans will gather together in great cities, small towns and rural villages to stand together for their country against the abominations and miseries of the MAGA fascists.

Republished with permission from Steve Schmidt

Next weekend scores of millions of Americans will gather together in great cities, small towns and rural villages to stand together for their country against the abominations and miseries of the MAGA fascists.

Multitudes will raise their voices against the corruption, violence, cruelty, injustice, and depravity of Donald Trump and his unfit cabinet of losers, freak shows and Little Eichmanns.

Millions of Americans will march because they love their country. They are sickened by the actions of depraved men and women who lie in the name of a cause that seeks to strangle liberty, murder the rule of law, and crush dissent. They do this in the name of a single man, whom they despised before surrendering, submitting and accepting his domination over them.

Mike Johnson and his MAGA Congress, together, are a breathtaking monument to moral cowardice, weakness and incompetence. Each is a corrupted specimen. Each is deluded and arrogant enough to believe in the power of Trump to exculpate them from their treacheries against the United States.

When millions of Americans stand up and march on October 18 it will be an act of love that is seen around the whole world. It will send a signal to every despot, criminal and fascist from Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage, the German AfD, and the whole of Trump’s rotten government that the American people are a free and wild people who will never be contained, oppressed and abused by MAGA.

The American people will show the whole world that it is the hollow men and women—those who tremble at MAGA and their threats—who are not ordinary Americans.

The American spine has never been found on Wall Street or Washington, Silicon Valley, or the most powerful law firms. The heartbeat of America is not heard on the Bezos yacht, or on Trump’s Predator Patio at Mar-a-Lago, or under the yellow umbrellas in the desecrated Rose Garden.

Yet, its absence in those places should never be confused with its power or presence in other places.

The American people are not afraid of Donald Trump. They never will be.

Let them point their guns at peaceful protesters.

Let them use and abuse their power.

Let them show the nation and the world who they are.

The pretext for state violence is building.

According to Mike Johnson it is the protestor who hates their country:

They have a ‘Hate America’ rally that’s scheduled for Oct. 18 on the National Mall. It’s all the pro-Hamas wing and the, you know, the Antifa people, they’re all coming out.

According to the Nazi Stephen MuKKKer it is the protester who is a “terrorist:”

His threats have been clear, escalating and violent:

There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well-organized and funded.

It is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.

Like both he and Goebbels said, “A storm is coming.”

Contrary to the propaganda of Mike Johnson there will be a simple reason why so many millions take to the streets next weekend.

I’ll share the reason why I’ll be marching:

I love my country.

Love is more powerful than hate.

The United States will not be euthanized by an acidic cocktail of malice, menace and hate by the low men and women of Mar-a-Lago or their retainers, propagandists, or intimidated hacks in the corporate media.

Masked men with guns are nothing against millions of Americans with patriotic hearts, signs in their hands, and songs of freedom beating in their hearts.

We will together march, sing and speak up for what is right against the wrongs that have fallen like the rain from a malevolent sky.

We will meet the challenge of Thomas Paine and the old test:

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Why do we march? Why do we fight back?

We must.

We are Americans.

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

We have endured through the night before.

Remember something that MAGA has betrayed and forgotten. It is what dooms them, and will redeem America. It is also something that Thomas Paine said:

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Do not be afraid.

The men pointing the guns are afraid enough for everyone.

Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt is a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. He served as a political strategist for George W. Bush and the John McCain presidential campaign. Schmidt is a founder of The Lincoln Project, a group founded to campaign against former President Trump. It became the most financially successful Super-PAC in American history, raising almost $100 million to campaign against Trump's failed 2020 re-election bid. He left the group in 2021.

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