Protests have spread across the US in response to the Trump Administration ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to round up illegal immigrants in California. The first unrest broke out in parts of Los Angeles, descended into riots, and led to Trump federalizing California’s National Guard and even deploying some Marines to assist them and ICE. Nationwide protests took place on 14 June, the Army’s 250th anniversary and Trump’s birthday, as part of the “No Kings” movement.
“Data Republican”, who became famous earlier this year for creating databases that exposed the US Government’s largesse in support of Elon Musk’s “Department Of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), just launched another tool that tracked federal funding of the groups behind the “No Kings” movement. They also published two viral threads on X here and here showing that the unrest in Los Angeles was far from organic. To the contrary, NGOs, far-left political groups, and an allied philanthropist helped fuel them.
These findings made some wonder whether the “No Kings” movement and the riots that preceded them are an incipient Color Revolution, which in its most general definition, refers to weaponizing protests. Although most commonly associated with NGO-driven US regime change operations in non-Western countries like Ukraine, they don’t always have to have the goal of toppling the targeted state’s leadership, but just coercing them into concessions that they wouldn’t otherwise agree to.
Before proceeding, it should be clarified that most participants in these events aren’t usually aware of the role that they’re playing in terms of the bigger picture, with many taking part in protests for various reasons ranging from simple curiosityto support of the organizers’ official (key word) cause, et al.
In the US, the Bill of Rights gives Americans the constitutionally enshrined right to assemble, including against their own government in protest, but this is sometimes abused as the cover for preparing riots.
Such was the case with summer 2020’s unrest that exploded after the George Floyd incident, with the latest unrest being eerily reminiscent of those dark days. Just like back then, most participants probably aren’t aware that the protests in which they’re taking part are organized by shadowy groups, some of which are federally funded. These groups aim to provoke dramatic scenes of violence between the security services and rioters in order to radicalize more people into joining their movement.
Half a decade ago, the goal was to rally Democrats and on-the-fence voters against Trump ahead of that fall’s presidential election, while the current goal appears to be to get him to back down on his policy of mass deportations. This is strategically important for the Democrats since congressional seats are apportioned based on total population, which includes non-citizens, thus enabling them to obtain more seats than they otherwise would if illegal immigrants were deported and not added to the count.
Political commentator and filmmaker Mike Cernovich concisely explained this in a recent interview with Jack Posobiec that can be watched here. In other words, if the “No Kings” movement – which is arguably an incipient Color Revolution considering that these are weaponized protests backed by shadowy groups for political purposes – succeeds in getting Trump to drop his policy of mass deportations, the Democrats will retain and inevitably grow theirnumber of artificially engineered congressional seats.
This couldlead to turning Texas blue, which is a euphemism for transforming it into a solidly Democrat-supporting state, thus making it almost impossible for Republicans to win the presidency. Simply put, the Democrats envisage returning to the White House and then keeping Republicans out for good, which could put the US on the path of becoming a one-party state. That explains the Biden Administration’s de facto open borders policy that saw millions of illegal immigrants flood into the country.
If the Democrats succeed with this plot, then they could hypothetically reverse everything that Trump does during his second term just like he’s trying to reverse everything that Biden did, but the difference is that the Republicans might never get another chance to change everything back to how it was.
Likewise, if Trump succeeds with his planned mass deportations, then the Democrats could lose their artificially engineered congressional seats. This scenario would restore political balance to the country.
Circling back to what “Data Republican” discovered, the shadowy groups that are involved in the Los Angeles unrest and the “No Kings” movement that emerged from it (arguably by design) are Democrat-connected and ideologically opposed to Trump’s “Make America Great Again”/“America First” agenda. If they win, they’ll aggressively reimpose their liberal-globalist agenda at home and abroad, thus undoing the conservative-nationalist advances that Trump has made thus far on both fronts.
Accordingly, what’s taking place in the US right now is another battle for American identity and the future of its foreign policy, one that takes its cues from summer 2020’s unrest that achieved its goal at the time. Trump learned from that experience that he has to be tough on crime and can’t allow it to spiral out of control. Moreover, unlike back then, he’s gained more of an edge over hostile elements in the bureaucracy (“deep state”) due to DOGE and thus doesn’t face the same challenges as before.
That’s why he swiftly moved to federalize California’s National Guard and even deploy some Marines to assist them and ICE. Other states like Texas are proactively preparing their own National Guardsmen too.
In response, California Governor Gavin Newsom has sought to portray Trump’s moves as unconstitutional in the hopes of getting sympathetic judges to rule in his state’s favor, which could provoke a genuine constitutional crisis if that comes to pass and Trump refuses to abide by their rulings.
It’s also important to add that the protesters’ demands have since radicalized to the point of demanding regime change through various euphemisms like “fighting oppression” and “countering dictatorship”. They’re also increasingly carrying out acts of violence against members of the security services. A state of emergency might therefore have to be declared in certain parts of the country if the situation doesn’t soon stabilize. Comparisons can thus be drawn to Ukraine’s “EuroMaidan” Color Revolution.
It’s premature to predict how everything will end, but observers should recognize that the stakes are very high, both for the present with respect to the aforesaid constitutional crisis that California wants to provoke with the federal government and the future as regards the balance of political power in the US. The outcome of this struggle will therefore reverberate far and wide, and it might even go down in the history books, which pressures each side to pursue maximum victory instead of consider a compromise.
