… we should struggle to see past the cartoon tale of the baleful President and the elusive whistle-blower to the beautiful parable of liberal democracy it actually dramatizes—that the dissident is, in our system, protected in complaints against the government, and that it is the King who has to bite his tongue and let the law play out. This is hard on the King but good for citizens of a liberal state, who did not choose to be his subjects.

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