Politics and hypocrisy are rarely, if ever, parted. Godliness and politics, by contrast, are rarely, if ever, joined, especially not in the country of my birth. These two truisms have perhaps never been on dual display as glaringly as during the first half of June.

At the level of political street theater, the usual hooligans were out in force in cities across the country, putting their thuggery at the service of riots branded “No Kings.” The idea (if one can call it that) behind the mayhem is that the federal government, acting on the orders of the president, does not have the authority to enforce federal immigration law. Donald Trump, the rioters bellow, has made himself, by stubbornly insisting on following the law, into a king, something that runs antithetical to the American political tradition. Never mind that the riots are paid for by organizations, like Arabella Advisors, funded by world-bestriding globalists such as George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates (see here). “No Kings!” scream the unwashed masses, chanting a slogan prepared for them by people who make actual kings look like shoeshine boys.

What is even more striking is that, on the law-and-order side — the side ostensibly opposed to the anti-authoritarian riff-raff burning police cars in downtown Los Angeles and elsewhere — is the United States Army, which was celebrating its 250th birthday at a military parade held in Washington, D.C., while other cities erupted into chaos. President Trump, seeking to emphasize the contrast between Army discipline and hooligan rage, played the Army parade up big, with television cameras gulping down grand panoramic shots of troops and their hardware passing smartly in review.

What seems not to have occurred to the parade planners, or to the president, is that the United States Army was formed for the express purpose of removing North American colonies from the authority of George III. The Army’s original motto could very well have been, “No Kings.” From the Army’s birthday in 1775 to the present, the American military and larger government apparatus has made true on its founding mission time and again, deposing all manner of political leaders around the world. No kings? If only the rioters in the streets of America knew the half of it. Those who are serious about the “no kings” rhetoric ought to join the Army and really get down to business.

Molotov cocktails or Patriot missiles — it always works out the same in the end. “No kings” is the DNA of the USA. What I have seen this month, in what is surely a prelude to another long, hot summer of political violence, is nothing less than the revolutionary character of America on stereoscopic display. People shouting death to the king, some of them decked out like Patrick Henry or Molly Pitcher, are protesting a man celebrating the very institution that ran a king out of a big swath of a continent some 250 years ago. Choose a side in America, and you are always moving in the same direction. Left or right, you are always screaming to take down a king.

And not just a political king. The Social Kingship of Christ, the notion that God, and not our passions, should rule our collective lives, is anathema in America. America is Puritan country, the land where interpretations of the Bible are as many as the population. No kings in America. No Christ in our society. No society, period. Just several hundred million little sovereigns, ruled over by the most powerful military the world has ever seen.