And he peddles this idea that monarchies are more "effective" -- that they *get things done*. Okay, so... let's go back and look at Europe 1200 years ago. There's a different king every 200 miles in northern Europe. How many of those dozens of "great men" are getting things done and improving the lives of their people? Charlemagne, a "great man" unified a big chunk of the continent by force... then died, left a power vacuum, and it all fell apart. And that's ...natural? Good?