Author and commentator Bayta Ungar-Sargon on a CNN panel said the people marching at a No Kings rally are actually protesting democracy, they are opposing a duly elected president from enacting his agenda.

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON, AUTHOR, SECOND CLASS, HOW THE ELITES BETRAYED AMERICA’S WORKING MEN AND WOMEN: Well, I want to start by saying I totally support the protests. I think that this is, you know, a very important part of what it means to be an American is to raise up your voice in any form that you wish. We have these First amendment rights and they are precious and dear. I also think that this was not indicative or representative even of the mainstream Democratic Party. These protests were overwhelmingly white. They were overwhelmingly elderly people, older people. Now, again, you know, white boomers have the right to have a mass therapy session about the fact that Donald Trump won. But to call it a No King’s protest, to act like he is a king is so utterly preposterous. This is a man who won the popular vote. He won every swing state. He’s a person who is enacting the exact agenda he promised he was going to enact while he was campaigning. And so what they’re actually protesting is the absolute perfection of American democracy where a person campaigned on an agenda, won the popular vote and is now enacting that agenda. So, it was actually a protest of democracy, all of which is to say the only way to greet such a preposterous proposition, calling this a No King’s rally when it’s actually an anti-democracy rally, is to crap on it, I’m sorry, is to basically make fun of it. And I think that has been the Trump administration’s approach. They didn’t try to stop it, God forbid, because he’s not a king. They allowed them to have their say. They allowed them to go out there and then they made fun of them.

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