I’m gonna be real. Love Ranking of Kings dearly, but it’s had “terrible politics” from the beginning, just by merit of its entire premise. A modern fairytale about good kings is inherently bad on its own. Monarchies are bad! And this is essentially apologia for autocratic systems.
While I'm no fan of absolute rule in any form, this seems to me to be a pretty nonsensical position. By the same logic the movie Black Panther is problematic because it portrays a functional tribal monarchy (run by a drug addict, no less) that falters, but recovers due to the nobility of its rightful ruler. That misses a lot of what's going on in that film.
Most of history worldwide has involved autocratic rule and as a result many stories are about royalty, some with noble characters. That doesn't make them treatises on monarchy's value. Ranking of Kings has been exploring the positives and negatives of a monarchic system (there are clearly bad rulers, and even nominally good ones can be suspect), so it's doing fine on that front.
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