The Misanthrope’s Corner

AMERICA is not a banana republic. We are a banana democracy, a system with all the problems of absolute monarchy and divine right but none of the benefits. Now we have our very own Lady Jane Grey, but we have no quick way to get rid of her, and we don’t even know who she is yet.

At least I don’t. The deadline for this column is the day after the Florida supreme court meets, but I am not going to wait and see what happens because I now have a reputation to consider. This is, you will recall, the third column on the election that I have written from a position of ignorance because of deadlines. In the first, I compared myself to the author of “The Lady or the Tiger?” while the second opened with the eerily prescient words, “I still don’t know who’s president.” Now everybody at NR thinks I’m clairvoyant, so I decided to go ahead and write this mother because Madame Florenza waits for no one.

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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AMERICA is not a banana republic. We are a banana democracy, a system with all the problems of absolute monarchy and divine right but none of the benefits. Now we have our very own Lady Jane Grey, but we have no quick way to get rid of her, and we don’t even know who she is yet.

At least I don’t. The deadline for this column is the day after the Florida supreme court meets, but I am not going to wait and see what happens because I now have a reputation to consider. This is, you will recall, the third column on the election that I have written from a position of ignorance because of deadlines. In the first, I compared myself to the author of “The Lady or the Tiger?” while the second opened with the eerily prescient words, “I still don’t know who’s president.” Now everybody at NR thinks I’m clairvoyant, so I decided to go ahead and write this mother because Madame Florenza waits for no one.