Protest Culture From COVID Lockdowns to No Kings Rallies

Showing 5 Protests videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Protests take strikingly different forms across this material, from pandemic-era lockdown resistance to physical confrontations at political rallies. An early retrospective video argued that the original 15-days-to-slow-the-spread messaging metastasized into years of lost freedom and economic damage, citing collapsed test scores and a $2 trillion stimulus bill as lasting costs of that period's authoritarian impulse. At Turning Point USA's AmericaFest, reporter Faith Merrill's attempt to get a protester to explain his own sign devolved into the demonstrator repeatedly insisting attendees were being brainwashed without ever engaging her actual question, an exchange organizers used to argue that many protesters can't articulate a coherent objection when actually asked. More serious confrontations elsewhere in this material included drivers ramming through anti-ICE demonstrators blocking roads in several major cities and a fatal shooting at a Salt Lake City No Kings rally, alongside a separate incident where a protester openly told a reporter he supported assassinating people who share Kirk's beliefs. California Governor Gavin Newsom took a different angle entirely, defending Los Angeles protesters against what he called Trump's unconstitutional federalization of the National Guard.