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Paul Kengor

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
179 total appearances

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Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

I mean, obviously the guy isn't a king.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

Yeah, well, you're making a great point.

Morning Wire
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?

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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?

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

So, there have been good kings, there have been bad kings.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

Louis, right?

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

St.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

Louis.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

So there have been good monarchs.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

Saint Trump, I'm not sure that'll fly.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

Yeah, seeing Trump.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
Mobs, Messaging, and Midterms: What 2025 Revealed About The Left | 12.27.25

But they're popular, right?