Donald Trump is America's Julius Caesar

The Daily Caller ^ | 10/14/2016 | Moses Apostaticus

[JPJones]

I’m not sure that’s good, look what happened to Caesar.

[Fhios]

I’ve talked about this since August 2015. Comparing Trump to Julius Caesar.

When coming down that escalator was ‘crossing the Rubicon’ and into the dystopian media driven politics.

[vladimir998]

But Caesar was THE BAD GUY. He was the law breaker who seized control of a floundering republic and essentially killed it.

[dowcaet]

The elites are so arrogant they don’t think they’ll ever be stopped by anyone. I think the pundits are gonna be shocked at the wide coalition of voters that will be voting for Trump.

[JamesP81]

Interesting article. I did a facebook rant (my rantings can't really be called 'articles'. I'm just not that good of a writer) but I made the comparison of HRC to Emperor Diocletian and Trump to Emperor Constantine.

Diocletian was a well known persecutor of Christians. Constantine legalized Christianity in the Empire (there is a misconception that Constantine made Christianity the state religion of Rome; he didn't do this. One of his successors was responsible for that).

The simplistic view is Diocletian was a bad person and Constantine was good. The truth is less polished than that, Constantine was known to be a very severe man, almost fascist in his devotion to the rule of law. He even executed his own son for adultery.

And yet, Constantine was a man who could be worked with who, despite his flaws, the Church was thanking God was in charge, having not long before been ruled by such a tyrant as Diocletian. He was God's instrument, the man for his time.

It is not hard to see the parallels between the two Roman emperors and our presidential candidates. HRC would have us go into the darkness of religious oppression, and deprivation of liberty. Trump is our Constantine. A very imperfect man, but the man for our time with the vision to deal with the myriad issues we face.

[RepRivFarm]

But Caesar was THE BAD GUY. He was the law breaker who seized control of a floundering republic and essentially killed it.
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HELLOOOOOO!!! People? If Trump=Caesar, we are totally screwed.

I would rather Trump=Andrew Jackson. Or even Trump=Lincoln.

Best of all Trump=Reagan.

But not Caesar!

[Romulus]

look what happened to Caesar.M/i>

Look what happened to the republic. I think the comparison is very apt, and that's what worries me. While Trump is clearly preferable to the criminal Clintons, I am not confident about his commitment to constitutional principles. He gets my vote because Hillary must be stopped, but I am not joyful about it.

[Mr. Douglas]

As they say, the winner writes the history books.

[Louis Foxwell]

A simple, powerful comparison between Julius and Donald. Trump will be the greatest president since Washington.

[Flavious_Maximus]

“They know that if Trump becomes president they face exposure...”

They are going to get a lot more than that. The globalist have been digging their own graves. It’s now just a matter of time before they get thrown into it.

You will know who they are when you see them suddenly fleeing the USA. I am talking to you Baldwin, Di Nero, Streisand, Olbergirl, Mathews etc..

[alloysteel]

General George S. Patton, of World War II fame, was just such an impetuous crusader. Impatient of waiting for Lord Montgomery, when the opportunity to cross the Rhine came, Patton sent all the available forces he could muster to pour through that breach into the still Nazi-controlled part of Germany, and set out not just for Berlin, but with the ultimate goal of reaching Moscow. HUGE panic in the Roosevelt war room in Washington, screaming STOP STOP STOP!!!

Reluctantly, Patton listened to the voices on the radio, and obeyed, withdrawing to behind the Rhine until Montgomery could quit fumbling around. Next time, swore Patton, after I cross the Rhine I am just going to smash all the radios and head right into the Russian advance. The plan was to accept the surrender of the Wehrmacht, but stockpile their surrendered weapons, then using the captured soldiers, armed and equipped, and now much better supplied, to be the spear thrust against the advancing Russians.

But Eisenhower pretty much sidelined Patton for the remainder of the war, and in the aftermath, in one of those strokes of history, Patton was a passenger in a staff car that was struck by a US Army supply truck, and died as a result of the injuries. Had he gotten back to the US, he would have blown apart the whole political landscape in the postwar era, predating Joe McCarthy by many years.

[Louis Foxwell]

There were many Caesars. Julius was the best of all of them. He purged the nation of incestuous corruption and restored economic and political stability.

[Louis Foxwell]

We have had several generals with Julius Casear self images. More to the point the Pattons and MacArthurs had a vision of geopolitical reality unshared by their political nemesis. They were restrained from their better judgement by their principled commitment to command perquisites.

[Rebelbase]

” I made the comparison of HRC to Emperor Diocletian”

It’s more fun to compare HRC to Caligula.

[RetSignman]

Et tu Ryan?

[trebb]

And the LSM and other commie agencies are trying to breed a host of Brutus’....

[buffaloguy]

Interestng comments.

Caesar was indeed the bad guy. He consolidated power into Rome and began the transformation of the Empire from republic to monarchy, a job finished by his succesor, Augustus Caesar.

Brutus and the other Senators who killed Julius Caesar were the good guys.

[Wallace T.]

Reading this article made me think of Colonel Joshua Chamberlain (played by Jeff Daniels) in the movie, Gods and Generals, where he quoted a Roman historian about Caesar's march on Rome:

"How swiftly Caesar had surmounted the icy Alps and in his mind conceived immense upheavals, coming war. When he reached the water of the Little Rubicon, clearly to the leader through the murky night appeared a mighty image of his country in distress, grief in her face, her white hair streaming from her tower-crowned head, with tresses torn and shoulders bare she stood before him, and sighing said:

'Where further do you march? Where do you take my standards, warriors? If lawfully you come, if as citizens, this far only is allowed.'

Then trembling struck the leader's limbs; his hair grew stiff and weakness checked his progress, holding his feet at the river's edge. At last he speaks:

'O Thunderer, surveying great Rome's walls from the Tarpeian Rock --

'O Phrygian house gods of Iulus, clan and mysteries of Quirinus who was carried off to heaven --

'O Jupiter of Latium, seated in lofty Alba and hearths of Vesta --

'O Rome, equal to the highest deity, favor my plans.

Not with impious weapons do I pursue you. Here am I, Caesar, conqueror of land and sea, your own soldier, everywhere, now, too, if I am permitted. The man who makes me your enemy -- it is he who be the guilty one.'

Then he broke the barriers of war and through the swollen river swiftly took his standards. And Caesar crossed the flood and reached the opposite bank. From Hesperia's forbidden fields he took his stand and said:

'Here I abandon peace and desecrated law.

Fortune, it is you I follow.

Farewell to treaties.

From now on war is our judge.'"

Hail, Caesar: We who are about to die salute you.

[abclily]

Donald Trump is America’s Winston Churchill.