Bhakti Shringarpure & Madhuri Sastry unpack the ways in which the No Kings protests were anchored in mainstream, white and liberal feminist ideas. They ask why there was no popular interest in protesting genocide in Palestine and analyze the rampant American patriotism on display, the obsession with aesthetics with posters about royalty, crowns and the statue of liberty, and are appalled that it was mired in a nostalgia for a pre-Trump America. The protests lacked any solid agendas to bringing about change and dismantling existing structures of violence.
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