"MEHDI HASAN: In the Capitol, all week, I've heard Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican members of Congress say that this rally, the no-kings rally, is a hate rally. A hate rally! The people who can't get through a single day without hating. On late night comedians and overweight soldiers and Muslim politicians and Mexican immigrants and Palestinian refugees and black women and transgender kids and peaceful protesters and Mr. Fricking Potato Head, they are lecturing us on hate? Really?"
"I'm not here out of I'm here out of love. I'm here because I love this country. I love America. I love the First Amendment. I love our democracy. I love out diversity. Yes, our diversity. And I am not willing to sit back and watch our glorious American multiracial, multicultural, democratic experiment, our constitutional republic destroyed by the guy from Home Alone 2! Not gonna do it!"
"Because I did not inherit America. I did inherit America, I chose America. I wasn't born here, I immigrated here. And we immigrants, we love this country often more than the people who are born here because we chose to move here, live here, swear an oath to the constitution here. An oath that the guy down the street violates every morning and every night."
Activists organized a Washington, DC No Kings rally as part of a nationwide series of over 2,500 demonstrations. Prominent Democrats urged attendees to remain peaceful while some Republican leaders labeled the gatherings 'Hate America' rallies. Rally participants challenged that label, accusing Republican officials of daily hostility toward many groups and naming late-night comedians, overweight soldiers, Muslim politicians, Mexican immigrants, Palestinian refugees, Black women, transgender children, peaceful protesters, and cultural figures. Immigrants' voluntary commitment to the United States was emphasized as stronger than birthright attachment. Donald Trump was framed as a threat to the multiracial, multicultural constitutional republic, prompting calls to defend democracy and the First Amendment.
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