Frederick the Great was the model of the benevolent despot. In modern times, Marshall Tito employed autocratic methods to benevolent ends, holding off the onslaught of ethnic cleansing and irredentism, the result of a bloody religious war. The USA has in its president a not so benevolent despot who veils his malevolence under a veneer of laissez-faire capitalism. Well it’s laissez-faire when it comes to emoluments and not so laissez-faire about free trade. Trump displays a clownish veneer gadding about town with the world’s richest man chainsaw in hand. Stephen King has shown the dark side of the clown in It. Kristi Noem is the epitome of Pennywise shaking her booty and $50,000 Rolex as she tours the cages at Cecot. BTW you realize chicken coops and abattoirs offer a kind if utopia since those inmates don't know what’s in store for them. Perhaps pigs are the exception. Historically democracy renovated (ie Parliament) and in the case of the US did away with monarchy. "It’s good to be the king," said Mel Brooks in The History of the World. In his disregard for the rule of law and particularly the judiciary, Brooks' comic one-off is something Trump is plainly taking seriously.
listen to "It's Good To Be the King" by Mel Brooks
and read "Never Brush Again" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
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