{"id":93178,"date":"2016-04-12T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93178"},"modified":"2016-04-12T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:55:09","slug":"the-case-for-making-donald-trump-king-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93178","title":{"rendered":"The case for making Donald Trump king of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catherine Rampell writes for the Washington Post<\/a>: Readers, today is your lucky day. I have the perfect idea for how to solve all of our nation\u2019s political problems.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a proposal that could satisfy the fringiest, angriest, most fervent Trumpkins, as well as the most hardheaded, technocratic policy wonks. It would revolutionize the U.S. political economy and pop culture simultaneously.<\/p>\n

We should make Donald Trump the king of America.<\/p>\n

Now hear me out.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean \u201cking\u201d like the all-powerful kind they have in, say, Saudi Arabia. I mean more like the arrangement in Britain.<\/p>\n

That is, a largely symbolic political leader, someone who serves as a sort of a soign\u00e9 celebrity-in-chief, and upon whom the public can project its grandest fantasies and delusions.<\/p>\n

This fancy figurehead and his extended royal family would serve primarily to boost national morale; commit gaffes and foibles that would make the public feel better about themselves but would be unlikely to start a nuclear war; host big, glamorous weddings and sail around on big, glamorous yachts; consort with celebrities; provide tabloid fodder; and otherwise absorb the American public\u2019s desire for a political figure who entertains rather than sets policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catherine Rampell writes for the Washington Post: Readers, today is your lucky day. I have the perfect idea for how to solve all of our nation\u2019s political problems. It\u2019s a proposal that could satisfy the fringiest, angriest, most fervent Trumpkins, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t