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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
I mean, obviously the guy isn't a king.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
So I thought the whole premise was really just kind of fatuous nonsense.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
Yeah, well, you're making a great point.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
I mean, actually, historically, there have been good kings and bad kings, right?
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
And they're probably, in fact, to really do, if you wanted to do a deep dive on this, I teach political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
And the most common form of government in the history of humanity has been monarchy, right?
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
You know, that all changes with World War I, to make the world safe for democracy.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
Monarchy was the governing type of government, even in Europe, until 1914.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
So, there have been good kings, there have been bad kings.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
I mean, look at, this will be real easy for Americans, St.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
Louis, right?
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
St.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
Louis.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
I mean, that king, the Louis, not the bad Louis XIV or Louis XVI, you know, les tassez-moi, you know, the 1700s, the time of the French Revolution.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
But in the 1200s, that King Louis was a saint canonized by the Catholic Church.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
So there have been good monarchs.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
Saint Trump, I'm not sure that'll fly.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
Yeah, seeing Trump.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
Even in Britain right now, right, Kate and โ I forget which one she's married to.
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Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25
But they're popular, right?