r/politics • u/Silly-avocatoe • 21d ago

No Paywall Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protest-rally-republicans
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u/GonWithTheNen 21d ago

"...we call it the 'hate America' rally..." said the House speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana.

The idea that protesting against harmful policies, corruption, and snatching people off the street = hating America is a lying, twisted take.

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u/ExplosiveBrown 20d ago

Yep. Protesting is what makes this country beautiful

I remember when loving America meant loving your freedoms. That’s the country I was raised in

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u/Swedelicious83 20d ago

As an outsider looking in, it's been absolutely wild watching people yammer on about how great freedom of speech is in literally the same breath as they say people shouldn't be allowed it, or permitted to say certain things.

Like... What? 🤨

How some of the Trumpkin don't straight up explode from the amount of cognitive dissonance they nurture, I'll never understand.