As everyone knows, many took to the streets in various American cities this last Saturday to protest President Trump and his policies. The theme was “No Kings,” as if Donald J. Trump were the king of America. Far from it.

As Speaker of the House Mike Johnson noted, “If President Trump was a king, the government would be OPEN right now. If President Trump was a king, they would not have been able to engage in that free speech exercise.”

Gary Bauer said that the funding for all these protests came from the usual suspects: “Multiple far-left organizations funded by George Soros are behind these protests, including labor unions, radical environmental groups, and America’s largest LGBTQ lobbying group, which wants to teach third graders all about sodomy.”

A Chinese survivor of Mao lives in the Washington, D.C. area. Xi Van Fleet survived the bloody Cultural Revolution, one of the severe blood-letting episodes in Mao’s Communist China. Mao was the worst mass murderer in history. Worse than Hitler. Worse than Stalin.

Xi Van Fleet went to observe the “No Kings” protest on Saturday. She tweeted about what she saw: “Just came back from No King rally in DC. Here are my observations. • it’s true I didn’t not see a king. • The crowd was not that big and street parking was not hard to find. • Majority of the people are white. • There are too many older people—60s radicals I guess. • There were so many costumes it seemed like a Halloween party.”

I have interviewed Xi Van Fleet before for a radio segment on Providence Forum. She is the author of the book, Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning.

She told me of her life in the states after being able to flee Mao’s China, “After I come here, I thought I left communism behind me and I thought, I will live in a land of freedom happily ever after. What shall I worry? This is America.” And she successfully pursued the American dream.

But later, with the rise of woke policies in many places in our country, including in our schools, she fears the left is pushing “the repeat of the Chinese cultural revolution.”

A sub-theme of the “No Kings” rally caught my attention. It played off the theme of the guillotine, the instrument of death used so prominently in the bloody French Revolution, which began in 1789. Signs said things like: “Kings Get Guillotines” or “You king, we Guillotine.”

The French King and Queen were beheaded by the guillotine, as were many nobles, Catholic priests and nuns, and perceived enemies of the people. Eventually, the guillotine consumed many of the French Revolutionaries themselves in a classic example of “You reap what you sow.”

Look at this amazing comparison between the American Revolution and the French Revolution. They were very different because the former was pro-God and the latter was anti-God.

On April 30, 1789, George Washington became the first U.S. president under the Constitution to be sworn in. He took the oath with his hand on the Holy Bible. He said, “So help me God.” And he even leaned and kissed the Scriptures. On that day, the Constitution went into effect. It had been finished and signed on September 17, “in the year of our Lord” 1787. Then it had to be ratified. And so it went into effect in 1789.

Also in 1789, on July 14th, there was the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution. France declared war against the monarchy and the Church. They desecrated Notre Dame and even changed the calendar years so as to avoid marking the years by the birth of Jesus Christ—which is how our calendar measures time.

In America, the Constitution, based on a Biblical view of man’s sinfulness, assiduously separates power. The Constitution is predicated on the Declaration of Independence, which mentions God four times and says that He is the source of rights.

Despite a Civil War, a Great Depression, Watergate, and much political turmoil, the Constitution has proved to be durable. We’ve had one government under the Constitution since 1789.

I asked Google how many governments France has had since the French Revolution in 1789.

“France has had over a dozen governments since 1789, including five republics, two empires, and several monarchies and other provisional regimes. The most recent system is the Fifth Republic, which began in 1958.”

The “No Kings” protests would seem to be more in line with the French Revolution than the American War for Independence.

I agree with John Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president, who once declared, "To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.”