This.
The only way to save the nation now is the Julius Caesar option, but Trump has to not look like it while he is doing it. We've been a republic about as long as Rome was a republic, which is pretty good given human nature; maybe God will grant us a few more generations, but as Franklin put it, a republic is around only as long as people can keep it.
[ By giving the politicians 3 weeks extension for deadline, Trump has clear path to declare emergency. If he had done it today, he comes across as dictatorial.
This.
The only way to save the nation now is the Julius Caesar option, but Trump has to not look like it while he is doing it. We’ve been a republic about as long as Rome was a republic, which is pretty good given human nature; maybe God will grant us a few more generations, but as Franklin put it, a republic is around only as long as people can keep it. ]
Not very many if any republic has lasted longer than 200 years. I think either the USA fragments into 50 separate pieces or at least 3-4 chunks or it becomes a totalitarian “empire” ala. Roman Empire.
Republics are unstable because the human vices can not co-exist with the desires of human virtue and the unholy mixture of both will lead to destruction after those who created it all have been dead for several generations.