Pritzker: ‘We Don’t Have Kings in America, and I Don’t Intend to Bend the Knee to One’

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PRITZKER: "We don’t have kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
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I’m not speaking up in service to my ambitions, but in deference to my obligations. If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. And all I’m saying is that when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control."