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Whoa. Very interesting and insightful, as we have come to expect from the Twilight Patriot. (A thought: were we in our period of ascendancy, rather than in our period of decline, would we get equivalently-good analyses of events from you, and others? Or does it take the signs of impending collapse to stimulate deep insight?)

Okay, now read the recent biography of the first Caesar, Adrian Goldsworthy's AUGUSTUS -- FROM REVOLUTIONARY TO EMPEROR [ https://www.amazon.com/Augustus-Revolutionary-Emperor-Adrian-Goldsworthy-ebook/dp/B00JZVKVBI/ ] and comment on that.

People who sense what is happening in America and the West generally almost always analogize the process to the end of the Roman Empire. But actually, the more relevant episode is the (extended) end of the Roman Republic. Wonderful movies could be made about that period, but of course will not be.

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