28 August

Is populism telling us that people are actually tired of the checks and balances of democracy? Maybe we're defending the wrong thing. The idea of democracy is to let every person have their own opinions and use checks and balances to balance all of those diverse opinions. Over and over though democracies get turned into monarchies again, hierarchies are re-established, the splendour and pomp of those hierarchies energise people. POTUS is more regal than any existing King or Queen. Should we be listening more carefully to what that might mean?