{"id":22471,"date":"2026-03-30T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/no-kings-protester-calls-for-1789-the-history-behind-it-tells-a-different-story\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:15:32","slug":"no-kings-protester-calls-for-1789-the-history-behind-it-tells-a-different-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/no-kings-protester-calls-for-1789-the-history-behind-it-tells-a-different-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Kings\u2019 Protester Calls For \u20181789\u2019 \u2014 The History Behind It Tells A Different Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>As numerous \u201cNo Kings\u201d rallies popped up across the United States, several signs and costumes prompted immediate ridicule \u2014 but perhaps none so much as the woman from Durham, North Carolina, who dressed in full 18th century garb and called on protesters to \u201cgive them 1789 France.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman, apparently dressed as beheaded French aristocrat Marie Antoinette, wore a blonde wig styled in the traditional pouf and fake blood dripped over her pearl necklace. The only two things out of place were her sunglasses and the sign she held, which read, \u201cThey want 1939 Germany. Let\u2019s give them 1789 France.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spotted at a No Kings protest in Durham, North Carolina!<\/p>\n<p>Epic creativity! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sd6yWeUqn5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/sd6yWeUqn5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Art Candee \ud83c\udf7f\ud83e\udd64 (@ArtCandee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtCandee\/status\/2037918354787185060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And while her point was clearly a call to get rid of what she perceived as the \u201caristocracy\u201d in the United States, several critics noted the irony of her invoking the French Revolution specifically. While the most famous public executions during that period were of high profile individuals like Antoinette and even King Louis XVI in 1793, the majority of those who died under the guillotine were commoners who dared to voice opposition to the revolutionaries. In addition, the revolution ultimately devolved into such chaos that the nation was already primed when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in 1799 \u2014 and then returned to monarchy after Napoleon\u2019s defeat some 15 years later.<\/p>\n<p>In another ironic twist, recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/500-groups-3b-revenues-behind-nokings-protests-communist-call-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting<\/a> from Fox News Digital indicated that the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests were bankrolled by a number of groups boasting a combined $3 billion in revenue \u2014 and by several communist and socialist groups who have been calling for \u201crevolution\u201d in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The lead organizers for protests in St. Paul, Minnesota, for example, were reportedly promoted by Indivisible \u2014 a relatively well-known Democratic organization funded by billionaire George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>Neville Roy Singham \u2014 an American communist living in China with ties to radical organization CodePink \u2014 was also connected several other groups that sent representatives to the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests as well. Among those organizations are the People\u2019s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-kings-protester-calls-for-1789-the-history-behind-it-tells-a-different-story\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As numerous \u201cNo Kings\u201d rallies popped up across the United States, several signs and costumes prompted immediate ridicule \u2014 but perhaps none so much as the woman from Durham, North Carolina, who dressed in full 18th century garb and called on protesters to \u201cgive them 1789 France.\u201d The woman, apparently dressed as beheaded French aristocrat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}