Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman told his party to stop with the Nazi and fascist rhetoric. That clearly went out the window at the recent “No Kings” protest. In Jamestown alone, signs labeling the president and MAGA as Nazis and fascists could be spotted everywhere you looked as in “Super callous fascist, racist, sexist, Nazi POTUS.”

So much for Fetterman’s admonition. Rumblings among Democrats seek to oust him out of office.

The Nazi signs were outdone by vulgarities and profanities lacing other signs.People carrying around placards plastered with F-bombs were commonplace, some slightly subtle as in “Brought to you by F-DJT” and others not subtle at all. Was it a commentary of their boorishness or their intellect?

Besides, how can the side that can’t tell the difference between a man and woman be trusted to explain the difference between a president and a king? The trust factor sinks even lower when a No Kings supporter and Antifa defender circulated a meme reading, “The handbook of Antifa is the US Constitution.”

Oddly many people showed up in Barney-like inflatables. Were they trying to make a “trans” statement by looking “trans-flatable?” My friend got a picture of one loopy-looking inflatable with a person holding a sign next to it, saying, “This is Not Normal.” I know “No Kings” wanted us to take them seriously but such doltish displays made it look like an audition for a lead role in the Theater of the Absurd called “The No Kings Ding-a-Lings.”

In the absurdity emerged a batch of contradictions like a person at another rally with a “Love your neighbor” sign with a person mere feet away holding a sign saying, “We hate Trump.”

Commentator Glenn Beck posed a very thorny question: if the No Kings movement is about opposition to millionaires and billionaires, why was it funded by millionaires and billionaires? Operating through 501(c)(3) Indivisible, the Gates, Rockefeller, Ford and Arabella foundations assisted George Soros providing over 290 million dollars for “No Kings” establishing a kind of permanent protest- industrial complex to set up “grassroots” rallies, riots and protests, not to dismantle power, but to rearrange it and make true freedom look bad and fake-freedom (i.e. abortion rights) look good.

At first glance, the No Kings attendance of 7 million looked good until you recall the 77 million who voted to have “No Queen” last November.

Though outnumbered by signs with profanity, others referenced 1776 and resistance to kings. Absent were signs with a famous slogan from our revolutionary era saying, “No king except King Jesus ” with one exception. That exception was mine, not to mention another I had that said, “No king would allow a ‘No Kings’ rally.” Even that one didn’t get the negative reaction like two others I had saying, “Charlie Kirk was not a racist” and “Charlie Kirk was a true Christian.”

The negativity boiled over at sites elsewhere with two educators expressing their utter hatred for Charlie through one mockingly acting out his assassination and the other celebrating his death.

Among those at the rally demanding more love, diversity, tolerance and less toxicity were people dreaming of Trump being dead.

What’s worse for our nation: having kings or a rash of people in No Kings desiring the death of our president?

Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis takes it a step further: it wasn’t a No Kings rally as it was an Anti-King of Kings protest.

All that being said, a woman on the opposing side extended graciousness to us for expressing our views. That was a Kirkian-like invitation to promote free speech and open civil dialogue. She, like my sign of “No kings except King Jesus,” was the exception.

The Rev. Mel McGinnis is a Frewsburg resident.