Things that Actual Kings do: Confiscate the guns of peaceful people;

Hike taxes, try to tax the same income 2 or 3 times;

Threaten social media companies for criticism of government policies;

Declare martial law and install a totalitarian regime for months or years on the pretext that the 99 percent survivable flu is a global emergency;

Refuse to require voter IDs if it means your candidates will lose;

Force people to send their kids to schools where they’re told that boys are girls and girls are boys, and then force parents to give their children hormone treatments when their children become confused;

Side with violent cults (Iran, Hamas) building nuclear weapons (or threatening executions, such as beheading) to use against people who won’t join the cults, and forcing citizens to pay taxes to subsidize the building of nuclear weapons.

Actually, Kings throughout history, while many of them were very bad, were not as bad as people doing these things today. The people doing these things today are called Democrats. Their behavior is not merely tyrannical; it’s sociopathic and sadistic.

Trump is doing none of these things. In fact, he’s trying to stop many of these things, despite being shot at and legally prosecuted repeatedly by people who ACTUALLY DO THESE THINGS and call Trump a King for trying to stop them from doing these things.

It’s madness beyond the scope of anything historians, psychiatrists or dystopian novel writers have ever needed to consider. Madness seems too tame a word for it.

People voting Democrat WANT a King. They hate Trump because he’s trying to limit the power of government, not expand it. Lowering taxes, reducing regulations, shutting down Cabinet departments, refusing to lock down society for the flu, refusing to let violent Medieval barbarians behead and bomb our civilization, stopping censorship, upholding the Second Amendment, restoring private property rights–these are all the actions of someone who DOES NOT WANT TO BE A KING.

The problem with Democrats is that they want a King. They yearn to be controlled, to be bossed around, to live under an insanely controlling and inept bureaucracy that creates the illusion of being taken care of. They yearn for a Fauci, or a Stalin, a Castro, or a Mao. If they get their way, they will get AOC instead. And won’t that absurd fiasco be the end of their Dream. It’s infuriating and frightening to see leftists (Soros paid and all) throw their tantrums and act out their psychopathic wrecking balls over all our lives. But you can be sure: No matter what happens, no matter what future battles they may manage to win here and there — they will never, ever be at peace.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason