FLASH
Shkruar nga Gjergj Zefi
The “No Kings” protests are not simply a revolt against a president; they are proof that American democracy produces counterbalances, that society has not surrendered, and that the United States remains greater than any temporary leader...
There is an error that is being repeated more and more often in the reading of the American crisis: the identification of America with Donald Trump. It is a dangerous confusion, politically shallow and diplomatically wrong. America may have elected Trump as President, it may tolerate him, it may be divided by him, but America is not Trump.
The latest waves of “No Kings” protests, held on March 28, 2026 in all 50 states, with over 3,300 activities planned and echoed in European cities such as Paris, Rome and Berlin, refute precisely this simplistic thesis. These protests do not just show anger at an administration. They show that at the heart of the American system there is still a reflex of civic opposition to any tendency to treat power as a crown and the republic as property.
The symbolism of the name “No Kings” is the message itself. In a republic built on the rejection of monarchy, taking to the streets with this slogan is to say that the problem is not just a governing program, but a culture of power. It is to say that the great concern of a part of America is not simply Trump as an individual, but the Trumpist temptation to transform the presidency into a spectacle of force, the law into a tool of pressure, and the state into an extension of personal will.
This is why the protests in the US should not be read as a folkloric episode of American polarization, but as a weighty political signal about the very quality of American democracy.
Minnesota became the epicenter of this wave not by chance. The state became a flashpoint after the federal immigration operation “Metro Surge,” in which more than 3,000 agents descended on the Twin Cities area and were accused of using excessive force; then, in January, the reported killings of two American citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, sparked national outrage and lawsuits. When the protest is linked to perceptions of state abuse, it ceases to be ordinary partisan opposition and takes on the character of a democratic alarm.
The decline in public support for Trump also puts this wave in a broader context. According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the US president’s approval rating has fallen to 36 percent, hit by dissatisfaction with the cost of living and opposition to war with Iran. This does not prove Trump’s political end; but it does prove that the energy of opposition is no longer confined to the Democratic establishment or the liberal media. It is spreading to the streets, to states, to communities and to the very public psychology of a country that will not easily retreat towards the normalization of authoritarianism.
Here is where the fundamental distinction must be made: Trump may be a product of today’s America, but he is not its definition. He represents a strong, vocal, and electorally effective part of America; he does not represent its moral, institutional, and historical entirety. America is both the Court that challenges, the press that exposes, the university that opposes, the square that cheers, and the citizen who rises up when he feels the republic is being pushed beyond the red line. The “No Kings” protests are proof that this America not only exists.
For Europe and for the US allies, this is a crucial detail. It would be a strategic mistake to read America only through the figure of the current president. It would be equally wrong to think that every swing in the White House is an irreversible transformation of America itself. American history has shown something else: that the country swings strongly, polarizes sharply, produces radical figures, but at the same time reflects a reaction to them. In this sense, the protests are not a sign of America's weakness. They are, paradoxically, a test of the survival of its democratic mechanism.
This is not a reason for romanticization. America is going through a real crisis of tone, balance, and public trust. When in a democracy the perception grows that power is behaving as a sovereign and not as a mandate, then the problem is serious. But precisely because the problem is serious, we must also see the other half of the picture: the fact that millions of people are taking to the streets, organizing across the country, articulating their opposition not with the language of subjugation, but with the language of the Constitution. This means that America's democratic nerve is not dead.
Therefore, the most accurate political phrase today is not “Trump’s America.” The correct phrase is: America is fighting Trump within itself. And that is a fundamental difference. Because a country that protests against power, a country that puts a symbolic limit on the idea of “king,” a country that reminds the president that the Constitution stands above it, is not a country that has surrendered. It is a country in conflict with itself, but not yet lost.
In the end, this is the main point: Presidents come and go, but the character of a republic is measured by its ability to resist the cult of their own. The “No Kings” protests say just that. And beyond Trump, beyond the noise, beyond the fear and propaganda, the strongest message being waged on the streets of America is simple: America is not Trump!/ Pamphlet
Amerika nuk është pirgu me plehë ku këndezi Izraelit këndon dhe bënë gëlasën e radhës. Burg për Netanjahun.
Më pëlqeu shkrimi
The Americans are brave people and always in crisis situations have shown themselves. The problem this time is that American people is smelling bad odour, the fascism dictature, which is dangerous not for America but, for all the world. The motto of demonstrations is No King, means a lot.
shkrim ipjekur bravo .
Ty Dema të vjen goja ere peshk e hudhra si ajo e grave.