In most governments, an economic crisis is a failure. In Trump’s case, it is a business model. The pain is not a malfunction of governance — it is the revenue stream. A stable public would neglect him; only a wounded one requires him. The crisis is not accidental. It is cultivated. This observation is not speculation. Recent U.S. News polling shows Americans are now more anxious about their basic expenses because the policies Trump championed — especially tariffs — raised their costs by desig...

Monarchy rarely announces itself with a trumpet. It arrives by motorcade and procurement memo, wearing the vocabulary of “security” while moving like a prerogative. It does not begin with a crown. It begins with distance — and the assumption that the public exists to watch, not to judge. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a republic, transportation is logistics. In a royal court, transportation is theater. A vehicle conveys authority in one system; it performs hierarchy in the other. The point is not movement b...

Americans were not in the streets last Saturday because they are angry. They were there because, beneath the noise of politics and the numbness of repetition, they remembered something older than the Constitution: the people are the source of authority, not its audience. The “No Kings” marches were not protests in the familiar modern sense; they are the reappearance of a constitutional instinct — sovereignty resurfacing after a long sleep. Most commentary treated last Saturday’s crowds as a c...