During Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, Democrats held up “No kings” signs to mock the president’s creepingly authoritarian rule.
But this is one era in the country’s history when Americans may look enviously across the Atlantic and wish they did have a king to smooth their troubled waters. Especially a king whose soft skills are so far proving to be something of a healing balm in the growing crisis in international relations.
The best argument against republicanism has always been to posit an apolitical royal head of state against the possible alternatives, including an autocratic nutter seizing power.
