I’m not a historian but I’ve read a lot.
One of my best books was an autobiography on Cicero the great Roman Lawyer and Republican. He was alive at a very sensitive time in Rome’s history. Before and during the turbulent era in which the Republicans lost and eventually Rome became a dictatorship ruled by a dynasty of Emperors both good and bad but mostly the later.
Here is my point. the republic died when the CIVIL and fair legal process died. They had similar show trails on each side which eventually led to involvement of the military, war and civil war.
We seem to be entering a phase of what with war in Ukraine escalating I feel we are in very dangerous times. Perhaps the most dangerous time in my life and I was born just 2 months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
may you live in interesting times—-ancient Chinese curse
I feel like we are being distracted as the new world order gains traction. Next distraction hunter trial.