A big takeaway for me from this book was that no matter how bad things got, the commoners found ways to excuse even mad kings. All blame was directed at nobility later below the king. The purpose of a monarch is to be blameless source of hope to idiot commoners in misery.https://twitter.com/ribbonfarm/status/1280245808529465344 …
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The American presidency has been a cult of personality for a while, with projection of monarchic yearning held in check only by the incumbent’s sense of their own limits and humanity. But it was inevitable that a mad potus incapable of that would eventually occupy the office.
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There ought to be an archetype you could call an anti-monarch. Like Sam Vimes in Terry Pratchett. The books create an anti-monarchist aura around him by constantly referring to his descent from the regicide who end monarchy in Ankh-Morpork.
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Trump’s base should be called his subjects. They behave like subjects.
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Nehru-Gandhi family was the only monarchical dynasty in India for a while. When they were out of power the opposition never rose to monarchic optics (even though one, V. P. Singh, was actual royalty). That changed with Modi, the first non-NG monarch. Fortunately he has no kids.
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