Speaker Johnson: ‘No Kings’ Is the Reason Dems Have Refused to Reopen the Gov’t

Johnson: “And tomorrow, the Democratic leaders are going to join for a big party out on the National Mall. They’re going to descend on our capital for their much anticipated, so-called ‘No Kings’ rally. We refer to it by its more accurate description: ‘the hate America’ rally, okay? And I’m not sure how anybody can refute that, If you think about what’s gonna happen here tomorrow, you’re going to bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the Antifa advocates, the anarchists and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left Democratic Party. That is the modern Democratic Party. That’s where they’ve gone. And the ‘Hate America’ rally is the common theme among all those groups. Listen to the language they use themselves. Many of them don’t like living in America, they hate capitalism, they hate our free enterprise system, they hate our principles. They hate the ideas that we come in to work every day to fight for, to preserve in the greatest nation in the history of the world. They hate the idea of individual freedom and limited government. They hate the idea of the rule of law, they fight against it all the time. They hate the idea of peace through strength, they lobby against it all the time. Individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, human dignity, the things that lead to human flourishing, the things that made us the greatest nation in the history of the world — they’re opposed to law enforcement, they’re opposed to military, and their votes show it over and over. That’s the collection of voices that you’ll hear tomorrow that the Democrats will go out and raise their hands with and cheer with. And some of these people are so blinded by their hatred of President Donald Trump that they can’t find one reason to celebrate America or all that we’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish under this new administration. Obviously, every American has every right to exercise their First Amendment freedoms. I’m personally a big advocate of that. I spent the first 20 years of my legal career in the federal courts before I came to Congress defending the right to free speech. They have the right to do it. Republicans, by the way, are the party that fights to maximize your liberty, and we believe, just as our Founders did, that every American has been endowed by God himself with unalienable rights, and that includes the rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. But tomorrow, this rally is not about freedom. It’s about the opposite. For many of our Democrat colleagues, tomorrow is about creating really a spectacle, that’s what they’ve been doing here every day of the shutdown with their little TikTok videos and their publicity stunts, and they’re going to do it in a much larger venue tomorrow. And as the shutdown drags on, it’s become increasingly clear that this spectacle is the reason that Democrats have refused to reopen the government.”