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[–] sxan@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago

That's because your monarch probably has very little actual power. The British monarchy (for example) has has their power slowly eroded over there centuries, and have very little influence on policy. There are few monarchies left where the royalty is actively involved in politics.

Trump wants to establish a dictatorship; I don't know that he gives much of a shit about his kids. Dictatorships are rarely hereditary. Someone's going to take exception with the strict definitions here, but: we had to come up with the term "dictator" to represent what monarchs around the world no longer were: absolute rulers, who's word was law.