Mortal Republic

Lessons to be learned?

See this.

Of course, there are those on the Left who want to make analogies between the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of Trump’s right-wing populism and the “irrationality” and “violence” of Trump’s supporters “undermining the American Republic.” 

This seems to be a perfect case of "blaming the victim" (a favorite leftist phrase). Instead of focusing on how, for example, Tiberius Gracchus undermined the Republic through radical populism and the threats of violence to achieve his goals, which led to his own death (a pattern mimicked by his brother Gaius), how about focusing on the conditions, such as extreme income equality and other flaws in the Republic, that led to the populism of the Gracchi to begin with? Likewise, those who whine about Trumpian populism and “the Jan. 6 insurrection” (sic) should focus on the reasons for these phenomena – the dispossession of White Americans, a System hostile to its majority population, income inequality and corruption (just like Rime), etc. When a population comes to feel, with justification, that corrupt, self-serving elites have become inimical to the interests of the majority, then reaction by that majority population becomes inevitable.

Thus, the real analogy is how a corrupt and out-of-touch elite itself undermines the Republic; that should be the focus, instead of blaming those who react trying to save themselves from the destructive society they find themselves in.

Then there are those on the Far Right and their mendacious comparisons between Rome and America (and the West in general). This book puts to the lie “movement”/Nordicist claims about how the Republic was virtuous in comparison to the corrupt Empire (with of course undertones that the virtuous Republic was Nordic and the later corrupt Empire was in fact corrupted by the foul swarthoid blood of slaves and migrants).  Putting aside “movement” lies about the racial makeup of Rome, corruption and scandal were common in the Republic, originated in the indigenous Roman stock (including the allegedly “Nordic” patricians), and was in fact responsible for the decline and fall of the Republic and the consequent formation of the Empire.  But, then again, Der Movement is always wrong, about just about everything, so why would we be surprised about this?

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