Another Disappointing Showing For Liberals

Saturday in Alamogordo was another disappointing showing for the left
as a little over 100 people showed up for the No
Kings protest.

I was in the area
for about an hour and a half, and while there was fairly heavy
traffic on both White Sands blvd as well as 10th street,
there was little support for the protesters from the passing traffic.  Roughly 2% - 3% of
passing cars showed support by honking horns, while others gave
signals of disapproval.

The event drew
protesters from Arizona and Texas, and even as far away as Georgia,
Oregon, Nebraska, and Minnesota, as well as from other portions of
New Mexico. Many of the cars parked in the vicinity with New Mexico
plates showed signs of long highway trips.

The crowd was not
violent. Mainly because the most common type of masks were oxygen
masks, as the median age of the crowd appeared to be about 65, with
an average age of about 60.

Organizers tried to
mask the money behind the organization by forgoing pre-printed signs
and instead having hand written
signs for the most part. However, all but a very few signs carried
pre-selected slogans that were
repeated numerous times, contradicting any claims of individual
thoughts being expressed by
protesters.

Notably absent were
some of the more prominent liberals of the area, Sharon McDonald and
others were nowhere to be found. Although at least a couple of
McDonald’s supporters were there holding up
campaign signs.

All in all an
extremely poor turnout for what this publication says is a ground
swell of local support for liberal causes. From what I could tell,
maybe 50 or 60 of the protesters were local residents.