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We’d Never Had a King Until This Week | The New Yorker

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Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history.

Save this story Save this story I grew up in the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, the self-styled “birthplace of American liberty,” and my first summer job was giving tours of the Battle Green. I would plunk my tricorne hat atop my head and meet the incoming waves of visitors, herding them around the Common and telling them the story of the April morning in 1775 when brave townspeople made their stand against the British and their king in the first fighting of the Revolution. Eight of those men died that day because they wished to rule themselves; as the Declaration of Independence put it the

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