The real “No Kings” day is July 4, when America declared independence from Great Britain. And the greatest apologist against monarchical power in America history isn’t George Soros, Kamala Harris, or their activist minions, but Thomas Paine.
The irony of leftists marching freely through our streets calling a democratically elected leader a tyrant for trying to reduce crime is apparent to all of us. But it does give us an opportunity to take charge of the narrative and remind the ignorant leftists of the actual history of rejecting monarchical power in America.
In Common Sense, Paine pointed out how many conflicts arise from monarchs seeking more power or land, how unnatural and unwise it is to give ultimate power and authority to one man, especially purely on the basis of birth. Most interesting of all, Paine pointed out a truth from the Bible that is too often overlooked: namely, that the Chosen People of God were never supposed to have a king. Monarchy was the form of government preferred by pagans and later adopted by Jews and Christians enamored of pagan practices.
“Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom,” Paine wrote. “It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian World hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred Majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust!”
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Paine added, “As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of the Almighty as declared by Gideon, and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of government by Kings.”
In Judges 8:23, Gideon refuses a crown, saying, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.”
And in 1 Samuel/1 Kings 8:7, God tells the prophet Samuel, who is distressed by the Israelite people’s request for a king, “Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.”
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In the same book, chapter 12, Samuel reminds the people how the Lord was already their king yet they asked for a human one too, and in 12:19, the people confess, “We have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”
The Founding Fathers believed this. George Washington, like Gideon, refused to be a king. Instead of a monarchy, America was founded as a Republic, a land where any man could one day be a president or a congressman regardless of who his parents were or what his social status was at birth.
There are too many would-be tyrants in America today, but Donald Trump is not one of them. In fact, the greatest irony of all is that the “No Kings” protesters are funded and supported by the very politicians and billionaires who are setting themselves up to be untitled but anti-freedom kings.
