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Charles In Charge: God Save the King with Douglas Murray | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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The Importance of DNA in Politics

"I revere the monarchy, but I find it rather boring as an institution away," he says. "Dynastic politics is one consequence of not being able to get that out of your system in a monarchy." The idea that there is a sort of small number of families who can basically run things will keep our eye on them,. If only the colintons and the embalmers would intermarry with the bushes, then then we sort of needn't have an election again.

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