Ross: Without confidence in elections, we might as well embrace monarchy

The politicians claiming election fraud will ride into battle, challenging the electoral count and even hinting at actual violence – as has the president.

That might be justified if we had millions of reports of election fraud, but we don’t. What we do have are millions of people who just don’t trust elections anymore, which means they’ve given up on democracy.

And hey, it happens. Counting votes is complicated, none of us gets to count them for ourselves – we have to trust the officials in charge. If you don’t trust elections, you don’t trust the people who were elected to run those elections, and everything unravels.

With the income gap in this country, once the violence starts, that’s bad news. So, we might as well do what some of the founders wanted to do at the beginning: Set up a monarchy.

Trumps are clearly beloved by millions of people, they already have their palaces, there are plenty of heirs, one of whom is already named “Baron.”

Now that I’m through the second season of The Crown, I know for a fact an American monarchy would easily eclipse the British version when it comes to intrigue and media obsession.

Once Trump is ensconced, he can keep the big plane, issue decrees from Mar-a-Lago, cut ribbons at golf courses, and create the order of the Red Hat.

Meanwhile, he will remain above prosecution, which I have a feeling is what’s driving all this. The monarchists get what they want – Trump forever – and for everybody else, Joe Biden will make a fine prime minister.

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