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During Run-Up to ‘No Kings,’ Right-Wing Media Called It an Orchestrated Marxist Elite-Driven Event [1]
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Date: 2025-06-16
During the run-up to “No Kings,” Donald Trump’s Christian Right supporters and media outlets, armed with just about every tired trope in their hate-filled arsenal, unloaded on the upcoming demonstrations. “USA Today Network Goes Full Commie-Promotes Marxist Riots,” was the headline at Richard Viguerie’s Conservative HQ. The media outlet described “No Kings” as a coordinated effort by “Marxist” organizations, paid for by George Soros, to attack the Trump administration.
Phil Hotsenpiller, who founded American Faith after Trump was defeated in the 2020 election, warned of the “disturbing agenda” of the No Kings rallies: “to crush Donald Trump’s influence, undermine constitutional authority, and destabilize American sovereignty.”
“Let’s be clear,” wrote Hotsenpiller, “this is not about preserving democracy—it’s about preventing Trump from returning to power.”
People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch Peter Montogomery reported Hotsenpiller ’”began a screed that ran on the right-wing ‘America Faith’ platform and was republished by the Pentecostal-oriented Charisma News—not even bothering to sustain the official fiction that Trump’s military parade is more about honoring the armed forces than a presidential exercise in self-glorification,” (
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/trumps-religious-right-propagandists-smear-no-kings-rallies).
In his column, Hotsenpiller wrote that “June 14 is not just a protest,” Hotsenpiller ranted. “It’s a declaration of war—against populism, against Trump and ultimately against the America our Founders envisioned.”
Columns on sites like WorldNetDaily and the American Family Association maintained that the “No Kings” demonstrations were being orchestrated by liberal elites and funded by left wing donors.
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