It's the Brian Laira Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

Well, it was a weekend for the base of each party to make their voices heard.

The Republicans' base at CPAC, the conservative political action

conference in Grapevine, Texas. The Democratic base joined, they hoped, by many people in the

center on the streets in every state with the third No Kings Day protests. At CPAC, some speakers opposed President Trump's war in Iran, but reports

are that most attendees embraced it. Here's a clip from the speech by Razor Pahlavi, who wants to be

the new leader of Iran. He's the son, as some of you know, of the late Shah of Iran, who the United

States supported before the 1979 revolution Iran, who the United States supported before the 1979 revolution

and who the United States helped install with a CIA-backed coup in 1953.

You will hear Pahlavi urge Trump to escalate the war until he toppos the regime, not just degrades their military, and the crowd

will cheer.

The path which finishes the job once and for all, we leave a legacy of peace and prosperity

that historians and scriptwriters could only dream of. That legacy will belong to the heroic people of Iran

and to the only president of the United States

who had the courage and the character

to see this mission through.

See this mission through.

So CPAC heard cheering for a more aggressive war in Iran.

The No Kings Day protest around the country obviously included opposition to the war,

also to Trump's immigration enforcement, attempts to make voting harder and more,

and underlying it, opposition to authoritarian tactics to implement

those policies, hence the name No Kingsday, obviously. One major rally was in Minnesota, in the

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