In an earlier post, I compared Trump to Constantine, while denying that he's Caesar. Upon further review, perhaps he is Caesar after all. Not in the battlefield, but in the rough and tumble of business.
There are his critics, who claim that he isn't a good businessman. If he isn't, then he is no Caesar in that way either. If he is as good as his word, then that comparison may be valid.
Caesar won battles he should have lost. Thus far, Trump is winning his battle for political power. He wasn't supposed to win.
Caesar ended the Roman Republic. There are fears that Trump will end the American Republic.
There are those who say the American Republic is already dead. By the time that Caesar came on the scene in Rome, the Roman Republic was all but dead, too.
Ominous parallels?
The aristocracy of the Roman Republic killed Caesar in order to save the Republic. Will Trump be assassinated too?
The aristocrats in Rome failed. The American oligarchs may well try their hand, but what happens next is anybody's guess. I'm through with guessing.
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