The Roman Republic ‘Restored’
28th June 2020
In a college Roman history class, we read Ronald Syme’s The Roman Revolution (1939). If memory serves, Syme described how Augustus became king, in fact, if not in name, while observing all the niceties of the Republic. The Senate still met but Augustus was firmly in charge. I wonder if we’re in danger of having our country decisively change while the institutions appear to continue.
In 2016, James Comey withheld from the Gang of Eight the investigation of the Trump campaign. The FBI investigation of the HRC private server was a joke and never was seriously pursued. But the pursuit of a Trump and his advisors was ongoing. Comey doubtless withheld the information from Congress because the four Republicans in the Gang of Eight would have protested. The bureaucracy felt itself a fourth part of government immune from oversight.
The First Amendment means little when the SJW mob comes after you. Citing facts only makes things worse since they are a hate crime when they subvert the narrative.
All the pieces of paper in the world won’t help you if the people in charge of the process ignore them and get away with it. Japanese American citizens found this out during World War II — the government ignored the Bill of Rights and nobody in the population was willing to call them out on it, so they were able to run roughshod over the Constitutional rights of thousands of people.