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No Kings is a catchall for no tyrants or authoritarians. It's what the founding fathers were worried bout when setting up the US representative democracy with checks and balances and a constitution. They didn't want a president to act like a tyrant or a king.

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Would the founding fathers support a wealth tax and do you?

I don't think they had a wealth tax back then, but if that's somethings the voters had wanted their representatives put into law, I don't see why not. And yes I do support it to prevent even great concentrations of wealth across generations.

But what is that have to do with No Kings being a protest against the president acting like a tyrant?

The UK had a wealth tax back then in the form of a land value tax paid by landowners.

Several of the colonies had general property taxes on land, buildings, and physical property which continue today. Given that "capital" was not a thing back then and wouldn't be for almost 200 years, these property taxes were in effect wealth taxes.

Reading the Federalist Papers these days feels quite ominous. So many passages describe Trump to a T.

And somehow the federalist society folks stick their head in the mud and make up some nonsensical interpretation, violating the clear and obvious interpretation, to justify further eroding rights and democracy. A party of greedy and traitorous fools taking down the country they pretend to love, enriching themselves at every step.

They were describing their experience dealing with kings and people who want to be kings. King is a personality type, not only a role. In more clinical settings they’re called narcissistic sociopaths, which is what Trump has proven himself to be, so that’s why we call him a king. Sometimes their title is “dictator”, sometimes it’s “emperor” or “fuhrer” or “chairman”. In this case his title is “president”, but he acts like a king, so that’s why we say we don’t want kings. This applies equally to wannabe kings.

Yup, people can get hung up on specific words instead of seeing the category with term de jour.

Saw this super interesting interview the other day. The Students - What the Greeks would call our government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=205IdzGJMJs

I do not believe you have been "reading the Federalist Papers".

I do believe you read a blog post where someone told you there were passages which "describe Trump to a T".

This one, probably: https://archive.thinkprogress.org/how-hamilton-warned-in-the...

I suspect you have projected instead of responding to the best possible interpretation

I suspect you did a quick search to find something you thought would back up this projection

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SD8nzsQzIHnOi2zSTwP... (readings)

Since I write almost zero code these days, I have far more time for reading and writing human.

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