“No Kings” protests and the future of American democracy
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
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Summary
“No Kings” rallies held across the country over the weekend gave the “anti-Trump movement its biggest moment so far,” according to The Hill. Participants warned that the president threatens democracy; some Republicans blame the demonstrations for prolonging the US government shutdown. As the news demonstrates daily, the key to the success of a democracy lies not with its system but with the people it serves and those they elect to serve them. Thomas Jefferson observed, “The government you elect is the government you deserve.” This is because living in a democracy doesn’t change people—people change democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings on this Monday, October the 20th, 2025. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum. Today's daily article is written by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. I'm Chris Elthkins' narrator. |
| 0:17.9 | Quote, many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and |
| 0:23.8 | woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that |
| 0:30.5 | democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been |
| 0:35.7 | tried from time to time. |
| 0:44.0 | When Winston Churchill made that statement in 1947, he had led England to victory in World War II as its prime minister, lost his bid for re-election in a landslide, and returned to Parliament |
| 0:50.9 | as one of its 640 members. He had experienced personally the vagaries of democracy. |
| 0:57.8 | If he were writing today's article, he might make the same observation, though far more eloquently |
| 1:04.0 | than I can. |
| 1:05.2 | Consider these. |
| 1:06.8 | No King's rallies held across the country over the weekend gave the anti-Trump movement its biggest moment so far, according to the website, The Hill. |
| 1:16.0 | Participants warned that the president threatens democracy. |
| 1:19.4 | Some Republicans blamed the demonstrations for prolonging the U.S. government shutdown. |
| 1:24.6 | The shutdown is now the third longest in history with no apparent end in sight. |
| 1:30.0 | France has seen five or six, depending on how you count, prime ministers in the last two years. |
| 1:36.7 | The UK has been led by six prime ministers in the last 10 years. After Hamas and Fatah took control of Gaza and the West Bank, respectively, following the 2006 elections, |
| 1:49.9 | there have been no more Palestinian elections. |
| 1:52.6 | And the U.S. and other countries believe Nicholas Maduro lost the election in Venezuela last year, |
| 2:00.0 | but the official electoral commission aligned with his government, |
| 2:03.6 | declaring him the winner, and he remains in office. |
| 2:06.6 | But my thoughts today are motivated by the historian Elaine Pagel's fascinating recent essay in the Atlantic. |
| 2:13.6 | She notes that democracy was unknown to humanity for thousands of years. |
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