https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-20-2025
"Over the weekend, as millions of Americans attended “No Kings” protests,
President Donald J. Trump’s social media accounts responded by posting images
not just of Trump as a king—defecating on Americans, even—but also of Vice
President J.D. Vance in a royal crown, suggesting that American democracy has
been supplanted by tyranny that will last past Trump into the future.
In the United States, no man is a monarch: the law is supposed to be king. In
January 1776, newly arrived immigrant Thomas Paine published
Common Sense,
explaining to his new countrymen why they should declare independence from the
King of England. He called for a new government based not in heritage or
tradition, but in the law. “[I]n America the law is king,” Paine wrote. “For as
in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to
be king; and there ought to be no other.”
But under Trump, the law is under attack."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
