Why Are Republicans Defending the UK Monarchy?

This is hilarious to watch. If you have trouble reading this message, [view it in a browser](. [It's Hilarious to Watch the American Right Discover Its Deep and Abiding Love for the British Monarchy]( Charles P. Pierce did not watch Oprah Winfrey’s sit-down with the two British fugitives the other night. He has not watched—except by accident—any clips from the conversation. He did not find it startling at all to discover that the British monarchy is shot through with racism. It is hilarious, however, to discover such a deep well of feeling on the American Right for the Family Windsor, and for an institution that we ran off these shores nearly three centuries before my family arrived here from another of the monarchy’s criminally mismanaged properties. Here, Pierce yields his pride of place for contempt of this passel of crowned jugheads to Patrick Freyne of the Irish Times. 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The Washington Post reports that a "weekend retreat in early April for the [Republican] party’s most influential donors will be at a luxury hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., as in past years. But the RNC has decided to move the Saturday evening portion of the schedule to the former president’s private club to accommodate Trump and guests who would like to visit the site, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the plans." This move comes in the middle of a genuine slap fight between the RNC and the former president*’s political operation. His score-settling has morphed from the electric Twitter machine to angry fundraising emails in which he excoriates any and all Republicans who failed to overturn the 2020 election on his behalf. He’s also threatening to sue the RNC for using his likeness in its fundraising material. So, naturally, the RNC is capitulating with both hands. Here’s Charles P. 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