{"id":2415541,"date":"2025-03-26T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-stage-nationwide-insurrection-featuring-upside-down-flags\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:33:21","slug":"democrats-stage-nationwide-insurrection-featuring-upside-down-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-stage-nationwide-insurrection-featuring-upside-down-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Stage Nationwide &#8216;Insurrection&#8217; Featuring Upside-Down Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-stage-nationwide-insurrection-featuring-upside-down-flags%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2415541&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent wave of protests involving the upside-down American flag, a symbol traditionally used to signal distress. This phenomenon gained visibility when leftist demonstrators adopted the inverted flag to express discontent with the policies of former President Donald Trump and initiatives by Elon Musk aimed at government efficiency. Notably, protesters hung a massive upside-down flag from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park to oppose federal budget cuts affecting the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>The piece also reflects on the inconsistent media narratives surrounding the upside-down flag. In the past, conservatives, particularly those linked to the January 6 Capitol riot, faced labeling as &#8220;insurrectionists&#8221; for displaying the flag. In contrast, similar actions by leftist protesters are frequently enough downplayed or ignored, exemplifying a perceived bias in media reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The article argues that Democrats and their supporters have engaged in a smear campaign against conservatives while concurrently engaging in protest actions that could be labeled as insurrection themselves, thereby showcasing a double standard in how symbols like the upside-down flag are interpreted in the American political landscape.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When an upside-down American flag was spotted outside the private residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, leftist media essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/23\/us\/politics\/lawmakers-alito-recuse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">painted<\/a> him as an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/justice\/2024-06-04-flags-on-his-lawn-justice-alitos-true-colors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insurrectionist<\/a>.&rdquo; But by these same standards, Democrats nationwide appear to be staging an &ldquo;insurrection&rdquo; of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Leftists across America have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1897041972663345448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adopted<\/a> the inverted flag, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/upside-down-flag-meaning-yosemite-federal-workers-distress-2035440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">distress symbol<\/a>, in recent days to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GettyImagesNews\/status\/1888800915689185291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protest<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/02\/new-poll-shows-massive-support-for-president-trump-and-his-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular<\/a> policies of President Donald Trump and government efficiency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/elon-musk-doge-influence-government-popular-trump-job-cuts-2040771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">efforts<\/a> of Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, protesters flew a massive American flag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/24\/us\/yosemite-upside-down-flag-protest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upside down<\/a> off El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in California, amid cuts to the National Park Service. The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/02\/19\/national-parks-firings-employees-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fearmongered<\/a> about the cuts, reporting that the Trump administration fired &ldquo;the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.&rdquo; As The Federalist&rsquo;s Elle Purnell <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/26\/how-to-make-yourself-invincible-to-media-info-ops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, &ldquo;If only one of the more than 1,000 people who work at Yosemite has the &lsquo;institutional knowledge&rsquo; required to unlock a bathroom door, Trump should maybe consider firing more of them and replacing them with people who know how to make copies of a key.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Trump&rsquo;s popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/muriel-bowser-meets-with-trump-ahead-of-his-return-to-dc-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Muriel Bowser meets with ... ahead of his return to DC - Washington Examiner\">government efficiency efforts<\/a> were upsetting enough to merit a distress signal.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag &mdash; traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat &mdash; thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jWOBfV4sRa\">pic.twitter.com\/jWOBfV4sRa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luckytran\/status\/1893541082803114200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Hundreds&rdquo; in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/BuEe7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marched<\/a> to a local federal building over the weekend protesting cuts to bureaucratic bloat in agencies like the Department of Veteran Affairs, according to the L.A. Times. Some protestors were photographed flying the American flag upside down during the rally.<\/p>\n<p>In Boulder, Colorado, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/boulder\/comments\/1izuv0i\/upsidedown_flag_on_the_2nd_flatiron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upside-down American flag<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/local\/upside-down-american-flag-hung-briefly-from-2nd-flatiron-amid-noaa-nws-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hung<\/a> from a prominent rock formation near an office for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to a local Fox affiliate, the NOAA &ldquo;began the process of firing hundreds&rdquo; of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of ...\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">federal workers<\/a> last month. The city of Boulder ultimately removed the flag.<\/p>\n<p>A &ldquo;group of El Pasoans&rdquo; laid the inverted American flag on the side of a hill overlooking the city &ldquo;in protest of Trump administration policies,&rdquo; as Texas journalist Bob Moore <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobMooreNews\/status\/1901313007315288511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> on X earlier this month. According to an article by Moore in El Paso Matters, the protest was &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/elpasomatters.org\/2025\/03\/16\/el-paso-upside-down-flag-protest-el-paso-scenic-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inspired<\/a>&rdquo; by the one in Yosemite.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A group of El Pasoans has unfurled an upside-down flag &ndash; a symbol of distress -on Scenic Drive in protest of Trump administration policies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i8bvqE6ZTH\">pic.twitter.com\/i8bvqE6ZTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobMooreNews\/status\/1901313007315288511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Kenneth Weinstein of the Hudson Institute also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KenWeinstein\/status\/1902692584134152557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spotted<\/a> an inverted American flag on the campus of Georgetown University, which is home to pro-Hamas <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Virginia_Allen5\/status\/1785000867294261751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protests<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/dmv-immigration\/video-protests-at-georgetown-university-in-support-detained-scholar\/65-aa7404bd-e900-46ca-89e6-164769005173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continue even today<\/a>. The display was a &ldquo;sad reflection on a once great liberal arts university,&rdquo; Weinstein wrote on X.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beyond disgraceful: American flag upside down on &#8294;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Georgetown?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Georgetown<\/a>&#8297; campus.  A sad reflection on a once great liberal arts university where pro-Hamas student events seem omnipresent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AVMbGVGH8u\">pic.twitter.com\/AVMbGVGH8u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenneth Weinstein (@KenWeinstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenWeinstein\/status\/1902692584134152557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Smearing Conservatives<\/h2>\n<p>On Jan. 6, 2021, some Trump supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/flag-waving-upside-down-was-seen-waving-in-front-of-the-u-s-news-photo\/1230794247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carried<\/a>&nbsp;an upside-down American flag while marching to the U.S. Capitol to protest the problematic administration of the 2020 election. Corporate media&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/justiceforj6-rally-insurrection-capitol-trump-1228690\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">peddled<\/a>&nbsp;the narrative&nbsp;that the inverted flag (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/interactive\/2021\/far-right-symbols-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">along with<\/a>&nbsp;common flags like the Betsy Ross and Gadsden flags) were &ldquo;stop the steal&rdquo; symbols and an immediate indication that&nbsp;anyone&nbsp;flying them must be a far-right insurrectionist. Leftist rag The American Prospect also <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/justice\/2024-06-04-flags-on-his-lawn-justice-alitos-true-colors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> the symbol was &ldquo;associated with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/veggie-only-uk-school-bans-meat-from-lunches-over-climate-fears\/\" title=\"Veggie Only! UK School Bans Meat from Lunches Over Climate Fears\">white supremacist&#038;nbsp<\/a>;groups.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year ago, The New York Times rushed to link Supreme Court Justice Alito to the&nbsp;so-called&nbsp;&ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/17\/us\/justice-alito-flag-reactions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insurrection<\/a>&rdquo; for flying the American flag upside-down outside his home in 2021. Alito told the outlet he &ldquo;had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,&rdquo; and that it was flown by his wife after a dispute with a neighbor.&nbsp;Still,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2024\/05\/justice-alito-upside-down-flag-jan-6\/678410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other<\/a>&nbsp;leftist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/justice\/2024-06-04-flags-on-his-lawn-justice-alitos-true-colors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlets<\/a>&nbsp;echoed&nbsp;the claim.<\/p>\n<p>At&nbsp;the heart of&nbsp;these&nbsp;attacks was Democrats&rsquo; effort to smear all conservatives who dared support Trump or question the legitimacy of the 2020 election as &ldquo;election-deniers&rdquo; and &ldquo;insurrectionists.&rdquo; As The Federalist&rsquo;s Mollie Hemingway noted, Democrats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/01\/the-j6-show-trial-is-lying-about-election-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commissioned<\/a>&nbsp;the Jan. 6 committee to echo &ldquo;the lie that there was nothing seriously wrong with the 2020 election,&rdquo; and Biden&rsquo;s DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/opa\/pr\/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-statement-fourth-anniversary-january-6-attack-capitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicted<\/a> more than 1,500 individuals on Jan. 6-related charges. (President Trump has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pardoned<\/a> and commuted sentences based on such charges.) Democrats also&nbsp;launched&nbsp;countless <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/propaganda-press-wants-you-to-believe-trump-is-guilty-because-jack-smith-said-so\/https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/propaganda-press-wants-you-to-believe-trump-is-guilty-because-jack-smith-said-so\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawfare attacks and media smears<\/a>&nbsp;against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But amid attempts to smear Trump and conservatives as &ldquo;fascists&rdquo; and &ldquo;threats to democracy,&rdquo; Democrats have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be the party of radical extremism, authoritarianism, and political violence.<\/p>\n<p>The American people were told to look the other way as radical leftists shut down businesses and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destroyed lives<\/a> during Covid-19 lockdowns and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/black-lives-matter-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">burnt cities to the ground<\/a> during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Now, violent leftists are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/21\/report-u-s-army-special-operations-issues-threat-advisory-over-leftist-attacks-on-tesla-owners-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">firebombing<\/a> Teslas because of their affiliation with Trump ally Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>They have the art of projection down to a science. Now, after a smear campaign affiliating the upside-down American flag with &ldquo;insurrection&rdquo; and &ldquo;extremism,&rdquo; leftists are &mdash; by their own definition &mdash; acting pretty insurrection-y themselves.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Logan Washburn is a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">staff writer covering election integrity<\/a>. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist media labeled Justice Alito an &#8220;insurrectionist&#8221; for an upside-down flag, yet Democrats are now using the same symbol to protest Trump and Musk&#8217;s policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2415542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Yosemite-1024x529.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,546,538],"tags":[10409,3685,52195,40146,52194],"class_list":["post-2415541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","category-the-federalist","category-washington-examiner","tag-insurrection","tag-democrats","tag-nationwide-protest","tag-political-activism","tag-upside-down-flags"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Yosemite-1024x529.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415545,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415541\/revisions\/2415545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}