Monarchy should be consigned to the dustbin of dead-ends in human history, along with human sacrifice, slavery, and dumping your sewage in the street.
The righteous leadership of a single, flawed monarch does not challenge this fact of human evolution.
Neither does the righteous leadership expected of one of that monarch’s future descendants.
“Restore the monarchy of the house of Dawid to its place”
…in the history books of the nation of Israel, as both an inspiration and a limitation to the leaders of our body politic.
If this fundamentally rubs you the wrong way, don’t worry – the messiahs will be much wilder than mere kings.