{"id":2190,"date":"2026-06-23T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:59:59","slug":"the-uncrown-king-americas-authoritarian-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-uncrown-king-americas-authoritarian-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uncrown King: America&#8217;s Authoritarian Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/steadystate1\/p\/the-uncrowned-king-ambassador-charles?r=eag0&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web\">America&#8217;s Uncrowned King<\/a>\u00a0 Click here to view the video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"substack-post-embed\">\n<p lang=\"en\">The Uncrowned King: Ambassador Charles A. Ray on America\u2019s Authoritarian Turn by The Steady State<\/p>\n<p>A former U.S. Army officer, diplomat, and ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe on oath, duty, service beyond party, the collapse of institutional guardrails, and why rebuilding trust will take decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steadystate1.substack.com\/p\/the-uncrowned-king-ambassador-charles\" data-post-link=\"\">Read on Substack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/embedjs\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Uncrowned King\u00a0 Click here to view the video. The Uncrowned King: Ambassador Charles A. Ray on America\u2019s Authoritarian Turn by The Steady State A former U.S. Army officer, diplomat, and ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe on oath, duty, service beyond party, the collapse of institutional guardrails, and why rebuilding trust will take decades. Read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/the-uncrown-king-americas-authoritarian-turn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Uncrown King: America&#8217;s Authoritarian Turn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[445,444,360,443],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearances","tag-americas-authoritarian-turn","tag-hold-fast","tag-the-steady-state","tag-the-uncrowned-king"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YXbm-zk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}