Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies featured millions of Americans claiming patriotic imagery against authoritarianism and toward progressive ends. That’s a good thing.

Last Saturday, millions of protesters turned out across the country for the second “No Kings” march against Donald Trump. Trump, ever the statesman, responded with a Truth Social post that contained an AI-generated video of himself flying a plane with a king’s crown atop his head, dumping massive amounts of human feces on protesters.

At the same time that Trump was using AI to smear his critics, his supporters were spreading the claim that footage of the enormous rallies was actually fake news. They were wrong: the impressive rally footage was authentic. The turnout on Saturday was even larger than at the first No Kings rally,

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