Commentary
Before the tributes to Queen Elizabeth II were even done, there were those who swooped in with calls for Canada and other realms finally to become republics, and worse. To which I say be careful what you wish for.
In two ways. First, there were some mind-bogglingly offensive statements on Her Majesty’s passing, including from people whose ancestors, or they themselves, escaped awful places for the Anglosphere, the foundations of whose freedom, prosperity, and toleration they seem neither to understand nor appreciate. For instance, one who on NBC said Elizabeth “was heir to, and in turn passes on, a chain of rule defined by the brutality of the British Empire as it conquered and exploited people around the world.” Can any sane person wish Britain had been governed like Iraq, or by it? Does even that author wish he’d lived under Saddam Hussein or Muqtada al-Sadr?…