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Monday’s Final Word – HotAir

March 30, 2026
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Baby, I could never steal you from another, it’s such a shame our tabship had to end …





Ed: Factory settings? LOL. Looks like the No Kings crowd doesn’t recognize irony, either. 

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Chris Bray at The Federalist: The American political left as a cultural formation, and the Democratic Party as an institution, have sunk into a style of oppositionalism that contains no opposition. They speak in a vernacular of protest because they speak in a vernacular of protest, out of habit and as a cultural identity, but they have no idea what they’re protesting. They’re very angry about the, you know, stuff. Something something Trump something something. …

They demanded on Friday that he spend federal funds without waiting for congressional appropriations, and then they demanded on Saturday that he respect the Constitution and not act like a king. And yes, some of the “No Kings” protesters support the Cuban regime, and marched with hammer and sickle flags, and called for communist revolution. No, they wouldn’t see the irony if you tried to discuss it with them.

There is, of course, nothing to be gained by pointing out illogic and inconsistency from leftists, which is like telling someone they forgot to include the eggs as they cooked using a recipe that doesn’t mention eggs. But notice, yet again, that it’s all just noise, that none of it means anything, and that protests are a thing they do because that’s what they do. The automaticity and the mindlessness are the core of the thing itself.

Ed: As I wrote this weekend, the “No Kings” movement is a Rebellion Without a Cause. We literally elected Trump, which has offended his opposition into utter incoherence. It’s not a coincidence that the momentum behind these protests comes from radical-Left activists who support and push authoritarianist systems rather than the representative democracy that elected Trump twice. The only coherent thread in all of these Resistance exercises is the preference for failed fascist systems in Cuba, the Soviet Union, etc. 





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Ed: The mother was actually worse than the daughter, and has less excuse for it, too. These protests are politically incoherent and intellectually bankrupt. Not a one can explain how a president who got elected twice is somehow a “king,” nor why they are demanding to reverse the results of an election rather than just preparing for the next one. 

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Babylon Bee: The Babylon Bee spent the weekend compiling the most popular lines used to pick up chicks at the “No Kings” rallies across the country:

“I also hate Trump, and I can’t coherently explain why.”
It’s important to point out what you have in common.

“Are your Birkenstocks making your feet sore? Because you’ve been running through my mind all day.”
It goes a long way to compliment her on her fashion style.

Ed: #11 actually made me laugh out loud. The rest of these might actually work.  

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Ed: Springsteen is more incoherent than most. Of course, that’s been true for decades. 

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Ruy Teixeira at The Free Press: These favorable political winds have made it a great deal easier for Democrats to ignore the need for change. Surely the American people have now woken up, are rejecting Trump and Trumpism once and for all, and will never be seduced by right populism again.

But we’ve heard all that before, haven’t we? In 2018. In 2022. And now in 2026, with gusto. How quickly Democrats forget.

There was a brief shining moment right after the 2024 election when it seemed like the scale of the debacle would force a real reckoning within the party. But that trend quickly dissipated as #Resistance fever gripped the party, the usual suspects mounted stiff opposition to any revision of party positions, and momentum shifted to the energized progressive left within the party.

Currently, the desire for change seems to be hovering around zero, as more and more Democrats have convinced themselves that their problems have been solved.

Ed: Ruy wonders whether Democrats have learned anything. Based on what was seen from the “No Kings” version of La Résistance, one has to wonder whether Democrats have begun a cognitive decline, not whether they learn as they go. And here’s another example …

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Ed: “Wow,” indeed. 

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John Hinderaker at Power Line: Given their aggressive posture in today’s politics, you might assume the Democrats are in the ascendancy. In fact, however, they are in the midst of a long-term decline. YouGov charts party affiliation over the last 20 years.





First, though, some historical perspective: 70 years ago, Democrats had a huge partisan advantage over Republicans. That advantage has steadily eroded over time, in large part because conservative Southerners, once Democrats, are now Republicans …

Now, for the last 20 years:

Over the past 20 years, the share of Americans who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party has decreased at a steady pace. Two decades ago, about half of the public identified or leaned toward the Democratic Party; that share has decreased by about seven percentage points.

Ed: The news is not all good for the GOP. While the share of voters identifying as Republicans has not fallen, it hasn’t grown, either. Plus, John writes that he suspects Democrats have gotten better at turnout, which may make this a wash. However, when Trump leaves politics, one has to wonder whether Democrats will suffer another decline as their obsession disappears. 

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Ed: I got more pings about this from friends this weekend than anything else on social media. It’s definitely catchy, and more importantly, hits Karen Bass and the radical Left for all their failures in my native land. Let’s hope it works. 

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Michael Shellenberger at Public: The Iran conflict is a reminder that we must accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, say many in the media. Iran’s disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz means the world is now losing 13 million barrels per day of oil and refined products, which is over 10% of global consumption. After QatarEnergy, the world’s largest LNG exporter, declared force majeure on all exports after Iranian drone strikes, Asian buyers scrambled to redirect orders to Australia. But then, last week, a cyclone slammed into Australia’s LNG corridor, forcing shutdowns at three of the country’s largest facilities. David Wallace-Wells in the New York Times noted, “No one has ever started a war over solar panels.”





But nobody goes to war over solar panels for the same reason nobody goes to war over candles: they cannot power the things that economies, civilizations, and wars run on. A gallon of jet fuel contains 34 kilowatt-hours of energy in a package weighing six pounds. A lithium-ion battery storing the same energy weighs 250 pounds. That density gap is why every military on earth runs on liquid hydrocarbons, why every container ship crossing the Pacific burns bunker fuel, why every combine harvester in Iowa runs on diesel, and why every 747 landing at Heathrow runs on kerosene. The fact that nobody wages war over solar panels is evidence of their limitations not superiority.

Ed: The rest of this is behind a paywall, but this point is worth reading and highlighting. It’s not just the density gap, either, but also reliability and scalability. Militaries can’t wait for the sun to shine or the wind to blow to fulfill their missions. Successful militaries have to have reliable, scalable energy to succeed. The only successful alternative has been nuclear power, which powers much of the US Navy, because it is scalable and reliable. 

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… avoid subverting a tale of good ultimately triumphing over evil

Ed: The Left rejects the good/evil construct, except where they can apply it to Western civilization. Tolkien’s Middle Earth tales all defended Western values, purposefully so, and Hollywood’s elite can’t deal honestly with his work as a result. We were lucky that Peter Jackson either understood the importance of those themes to the coherence of LOTR, or at least was benignly ignorant of it enough to leave it alone. 

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Ed: These clips have made the rounds for the past day as a demonstration of Trump’s long interest in Iran policy, and they certainly do that. It’s also interesting to see how Trump’s style changed. In the earlier clip, Trump speaks more in the manner of William F. Buckley; by 1987, he had become much more pugnacious in style and in content.  (via Instapundit)


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