Biden’s problem is he’s not a TV star, just a good president. What is the draw of royalty? It’s much less effort than tedious democracy to just accept legitimacy being handed down from above. On this show, from the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Suzanne Schneider explains how today’s fascination with royalty and reverence for military trappings displays a hunger for divine intervention, as democracy takes a big very dangerous hit. But history shows it doesn’t have to.