Could also very well be a return to constitutional monarchism.
More and more countries get their national unity destroyed by factionalism between political parties that once could work together for the nation and now act like the other party or parties are the their arch enemy and divide the nation.
Monarchs (if they use their role well) are a symbol of unity like no 5 year elected president (who might be heavily biased based on their party) will ever be.
I think the problem would be choosing a royal family. Without a super obvious heir, you open yourself up to tonnes of challenges from loads of groups. Would Germany put the Kaiser's living family in power now? Probably not.
If you intend to select a new family, how would you even go about that? Lottery?
Monarchies are absolutely not immune to factionalism and destruction of national unity. Not only that, king can be possible liability because in theory "he has no political agenda" - until he does.
This is basically what happened in Italy - king hated liberals and so helped fascists to get into the power.
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u/Generic_Person_3833 May 20 '25
Could also very well be a return to constitutional monarchism.
More and more countries get their national unity destroyed by factionalism between political parties that once could work together for the nation and now act like the other party or parties are the their arch enemy and divide the nation.
Monarchs (if they use their role well) are a symbol of unity like no 5 year elected president (who might be heavily biased based on their party) will ever be.