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SETH HALPERN's avatar

It's interesting to speculate on whether the US would be any different if we'd had a constitutional monarch to obviate or forestall the imperial presidency. Would Congress have assumed a more assertive role, or would the executive have indulged in the same self aggrandizement with which we're familiar? Would a hereditary American Royal Family have just faded into the background like a bad Hollywood set?

Would the Trumps have settled for central casting or would we have to chop off their heads anyway?

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