{"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":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-role-fit-for-donald-trump-king-of-america\/2016\/04\/11\/e2b7b028-001d-11e6-b823-707c79ce3504_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f_1%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">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<p>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<p>We should make Donald Trump the king of America.<\/p>\n<p>Now hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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":"<p>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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93179,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93178\/revisions\/93179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}