Opinion: What a feeble king and a barbarian teach us about Trump
By Hugh Hewitt Hugh Hewitt Bio Follow February 26 at 12:20 PM Netflix has another hit on its hands: “The Last Kingdom,” based on Bernard Cornwell’s series of novels about late-ninth-century England. Launched in October 2015 by BBC America and BBC Two, it was later picked up by Netflix, which describes the series thus: “As Alfred the Great defends his kingdom from Norse invaders, Uhtred — born a Saxon but raised by Vikings — seeks to claim his ancestral birthright.
The irony of the entire series, of course, is that Alfred, the devout and brilliant king is physically weak, commands less than half the population of the land he seeks to lead, and needs the near-barbarian Uhtred to repeatedly defend what’s left of England and then to oversee its slow ingathering of power and territory. Watch it for two reasons.
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