Messaging Around No Kings Protests

Style and Language #

What style and language gives the clearest, most sincere engagment?

Recognize we are big tent, and there will come a time for playing offense, but most of 2025 and 2026 will be defense. It's the job of No Kings to say No. It's right in the title.

Summary of what we are against #

Josh Marshall version #

Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo

• The politicized Justice Department
• Violent ICE paramilitaries and Kavanaugh stops
• Gutting and corrupting the civil service
• Election rigging?
• Military invasions of American cities
• Flagrant corruption across all of the Trump administration

Evan Genest (me) #

I'm parking my own bullet points here.

• Changing spending already voted by another branch of the government
• Opposite of correct response when there is national violence
• Preference to foreign powers, if they are dictators, over 50% of America
• Treating our day to day as his own reality show, desperate for ratings
• His constituencies: Ratings > MAGA > Foreign dictators > Evangelical Christians >> Liberal Americans and Blue Cities/States

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