Connecticut’s “Kings”

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In its Saturday, October 10, 2025 edition, front page, top of the fold, The Hartford Courant blared, “Thousands expected at ‘No Kings’ rallies.” The rallies, across the nation and in Connecticut, were put together by an anti-President Donald Trump group called “Indivisible,” a play on the well-turned phrase taken from “The pledge of Allegiance”… “one nation, indivisible, “ the first version of which was penned in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union army officer in the Civil War who later authored a book on how to teach patriotism to children in public schools.

 

Some may wonder whether Indivisible would permit patriotism – as it has been passed down to us traditionally from George Washington to the present day – to be taught in schools. Indivisible’s funding is invisible, according to Factually: “Indivisible’s public-facing history and mission documents explain tactics and scope but stop short of listing funders, creating a transparent gap between dollars spent and donor identities.”

 

In attendance at the rally were thousands of self-proclaimed patriots, all of them indivisibly united in their opposition to all things Trumpian, President Donald Trump being put forward as a discredited “king” somewhat in the fashion of George III, the king of Great Britain during the American Revolution who ruled from October 25, 1760, until his death on January 29, 1820, a sixty year stretch.

 

Unlike the king of Britain, Trump’s two terms in office, divided by the presidency of Joe Biden, will conclude in 2029. The 22^nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prevents any president, kingly or not, from serving more than two terms in office. Trump’s kingship is time sensitive. As of this writing, Trump’s kingship will peter out in 1189 days, 1 hours, 6 minutes and 22 seconds, according to the Trump Presidential Term End Countdown.

 

Our presidential term limit does not apply to congresspersons or, in Connecticut, to governors. U.S. Representative John Larson of the Gerrymandered 1^st District has served 14 two-year terms. Larson has whittled away 43 years in state and national politics, about 17 years short of King George III’s long tenure as Great Britain’s monarch. Of Connecticut’s five US House seats, the 1^st District -- in Democratic hands without interruption since 1957, and for all but six years since 1931 -- has the lowest Republican voter performance of the five Connecticut house seats. The last Republican US Representative to hold office in Larson’s 1^st District was Edwin May in 1956.

 

If parties were monarchs, Connecticut’s Democrat Party would be king. The state’s governorship, the General Assembly, Connecticut’s entire U.S Congressional Delegation, its Supreme Court, all its justices appointed by Democrat governors, and the administrative heads of the state’s larger cities lie in Democrat Party hands.

 

Larson showed up in Glastonbury, Connecticut to celebrate “No King’s Day” and issued the following proclamation: “This morning in Glastonbury, we stood together for democracy. ‘No Kings Day’ isn’t about party, it’s about principle. Hundreds of Connecticut residents came out to say what our founders made clear more than two centuries ago: America doesn’t have kings. We have a Constitution, and we have a duty to defend it.  I was proud to join so many friends, neighbors, and community leaders in Glastonbury to reaffirm that truth. And yes, while I may be listed by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security for speaking out against their abuses of power, I wear that as a badge of honor. If standing up for families torn apart by ICE raids or defending every American’s right to peacefully protest puts me on a list, that says more about them than it does about me. We will not be intimidated. We will not back down. Today was a reminder that democracy only works when ordinary people stand up, speak out, and refuse to be silenced. Thank you to everyone who came out. Your voices matter, and together we’re making sure we the people will be heard!”

 

U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, perhaps the most celebrated Jewish U.S. Senator in the state’s recent history, was no less effusive. When addressing anti-Trump neo-progressives in Connecticut, Blumenthal regularly downplays any mention of Trump’s faithful and abiding support of Israel. During Trump’s tenure as president, Syria’s monarchical Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for Russia; the ability of Iran to produce a nuclear weapon was downgraded through the bombing of its heavily fortified underground nuclear sites; terrorists gangs financed largely by Iran – Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen – were more or less incapacitated; and, when Trump visited Israel following the release of innocent Israelis held captive by Hamas, he was warmly greeted for having brought together a number of Middle East Arab states that had embraced Trump’s 20 point plan for peace and rebuilding in Gaza.

 

Naturally, none of this was mentioned at the Indivisible anti-Trump rally on the state’s capitol building lawn in Hartford, because the notion that a president so dedicated to the preservation of Israel as a post-holocaust homeland for Jews, is in fact a hidden fascist, as many of the signs proclaim, would instantly be denounced as a laughable absurdity.

 

Here in Connecticut, it has not escaped public notice that the Democrat Party’s lock on political power is an exercise in authoritarian government through force and pretty much the opposite of the commonly accepted notion of democracy, which envisions a modest use of political force and a forceful rejection of government by politburo caucus.