If you look at my homepage I said I considered him to be someone who was led by good motives to a terrible result. Some folks on this thread seem to want a President rather like the Emperor Constantine: a Christian autocrat.
No personal inference intended. Just thought you might enjoy the denarius. It was issued in 54 BC by the mint magistrate Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of Cornelia, the daughter of Sulla.
Some folks on this thread seem to want a President rather like the Emperor Constantine: a Christian autocrat.
Actually, the situation would be much worse. With Constantine, once he established authority, the political situation was heavily in his favor so thing were relatively peaceful.
The Red-Blue divide in the U.S. today is pretty close to 50-50. If we resort to autocrats imposing their moral will by brute force with the Rule of Law, we would have a replay of late Roman Republic with an alternating cycle of Sullan and Marian bloodbaths.