Divine Right of Kings

A noted libertarian blog provides an unusually sophisticated justification for the unlimited authority King George seems to keep trying to claim.

In fairness, the post was of course not intended seriously; it was for opposite day, apparently.  However, it struck me as an opportunity to reflect on the issue that has so consistently annoyed liberals like myself (I consider myself a liberal in both the classical and modern sense, and see no contradiction there whatever); the tendency of so many who call themselves libertarians to make excuses for right-wing big government authoritarians.  I hope that tendency will decline with the general decline of King George's popularity, but it continues to make it very hard for me to have much respect for the libertarian faction.

Comments

[Jason Kuznicki]

Rest assured that I am no friend of the present administration, which I find one of the most unlibertarian in our history. I will make no serious apologies for our president, and what I really aimed at, in my opposite-day post, was not so much George I of the United States, but Louis XIV of France. I am, you know, a French historian by training.