Meghan McCain came under fire on Saturday after she made an unpopular comment about the "No Kings" protests.
Some analysts have hailed this weekend's pro-democracy protests as the largest on record, but political dynasty McCain, the daughter of the late GOP presidential candidate John McCain, does not understand the point.
"I don’t understand how Trump is a King when he won every single swing state, the electoral college and popular vote in a democratic election," McCain wrote on X Saturday.
That led to immediate responses from various high-profile political insiders.
Atlantic writer Jonathan Chait asked the commentator, "Is it your view that literally nothing a freely elected president does in office can be anti democratic?"
GOP pollster Mike Madrid said, "Your father had the courage to speak out against this."
The popular Nerds for Humanity account told McCain that "winning fair and square doesn't make overreach okay."
The account added, "Critics aren't calling him king for the vote, they're worried about power grabs like these: -Issuing an EO to end birthright citizenship, defying the 14th Amendment. -Firing 17+ inspectors general without the required 30-day notice to Congress, gutting independent oversight. -Invoking the Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations, a wartime power twisted for peacetime crackdowns. -Freezing congressionally approved federal funds, usurping lawmakers' purse strings. -Directing agencies to rewrite election rules with voter barriers, invading Congress's turf. Make sense?"
Former GOP staffer Drew McDowell said, "Meghan McCain is doing her best to blow up her father’s legacy."
"John McCain would be speaking at a No Kings rally today," he added on Saturday.
One attorney, Christine Jones, pushed back on those bringing up Meghan McCain's father.
"Why does every Meghan post bring out the 'your dad would have…' crowd, mostly people who never even met him?" she asked Saturday. "I knew John McCain fairly well, and I’d never presume to know how he’d react to any of Meghan’s posts. The compulsion to drag him into every conversation is just bizarre."
