Trump for king

Wouldn't it be better if Trump had all the power of a modern-day British monarch?

President Trump.

Donald Trump shouldn't be president. He should be king.

Well, let me qualify that. First, I'd rather Trump have no position of public influence or state authority. Second, I oppose everything about inherited power. And third, I don't mean "king" so much as "head of state," a role which can take many forms (monarchy included) that are at once very shiny and entirely impotent.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.