“The American Republic is the last medieval monarchy. It is intended that the President shall rule, and take all the risks of ruling… All the popular Presidents, Jackson Lincoln, and Roosevelt have acted as democratic despots, but emphatically not as constitutional monarchs. In short, the names have become curiously interchanged; and as a historical reality it is the President who ought to be called a King.”
It is with Chesterton’s quote in mind that I have witnessed the bewildering events of the past month: Biden’s calamitous debate performance, the rebellion of democrat-friendly commentators, the pins and needles NATO summit press conference, a judge’s dismissal of the strongest legal case against Trump, the former and likely future president coming within a centimeter of an assassin’s bullet, the iconic raised fist photo, and now the selection of the first millennial vice presidential candidate in J.D. Vance. Even as a professional politics watcher, I can hardly keep up.
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