The Founders didn’t fight a revolution to trade one king for another. They designed a government to stop any leader from claiming unchecked power, yet here we are—watching a president embrace monarchy-like rhetoric.
Washington stepped down to prevent lifelong rule. Jefferson warned that liberty must be refreshed when tyranny takes hold. Madison, Hamilton, and Franklin all agreed—America was meant to be a republic, not a throne.
If a president calls himself a king, what would the Founders say? They’d call it treason against the republic. The Constitution has no crown, no royal decree—only the duty to remove tyranny before it takes root.
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A republic, if we can keep it.
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