“The Crown” is about the severe restrictions the system puts on the life choices of all of the members of the royal family, and how they react to them. Everyone inevitably rebels in one way or another, but those who persist, or go over the line, are crushed. The viewer can’t help but think that it is a bad bargain for all of them. It is a case, in a backhanded way, for a republic.
But Trump has shown that there are problems with republics, too. While he has been a failure as our country’s chief executive, he has been an unmitigated disaster as our head of state. As our national representative to the world, he sends the message that Americans are stupid, crass, and narcissistic. He embarrasses us every day he sits in the White House.
For all of their shortcomings, no member of the royal family has ever shamed the residents of the UK the way Trump has humiliated us. Monarchy, anyone?