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Why America Keeps Looking for a King | TMP #1083
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America didn’t wake up in a ditch overnight.
Like a washed-out country road, the damage to our republic has been building beneath the surface for years.
Today’s Opening Argument begins in a small American town where a road has washed out, a mayor is standing in the mud, and everyone wants the same thing:
“Fix it.”
But one person cannot rebuild a road, run a town, spend public money, and answer to the people all by himself. That is not weakness. That is self-government.
And somewhere between towns like Maple Creek and Pennsylvania Avenue, America forgot that lesson.
The presidency was never supposed to be an Iron Throne. Congress was never supposed to be a Small Council. And the American people were never supposed to be subjects choosing which political house gets to rule over them.
We do not need a better king.
We need our republic back.
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