05/12/2026
Right-leaners unanimously called the No Kings protests hypocritical. Then they rated their left-leaning partners' defenses of those protests as reasonable nearly 95% of the time.
Last month, Sandboxers discussed the No Kings movement. Every right-leaning Sandboxer agreed with an assertion that called the protests one-sided, and many said the protests were unnecessary or stupid. Unspurprisingly, about 70% of left-leaners disagreed that the protests are unprincipled. But something unexpected happened in the conversations themselves: despite dismissing the protests as a funded, partisan farce, right-leaners took the left's arguments seriously at a remarkably high rate.
Curious why each side took the other side seriously? Read the full summary on Substack! https://open.substack.com/pub/sandboxideas/p/are-no-kings-protests-hypocritical?r=5gvnbz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
