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Notice as well, how accepting the public is of the idea....
Remember that Julius Caesar was a patrician (noble birth) who was loved by the plebs because he was a populist and set himself against the senate.
I'm not explicitly comparing Trump to Julius Caesar, but I think its always that dynamic / archetype that arises. The senate becomes more and more useless and more and more corrupt until finally someone arrives to "consolidate power" and the public rallies around them because: in the end order is prized over chaos.
As they say, history doesn't repeat but it certainly rhymes....
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My first reaction to Trump talking about making Greenland and Canada and Panama parts of America was “Oh, we’re entering the territorial overextension phase of the American Empire.”