There certainly are similarities to Rome, but closer to home, I see similarities to the Soviet Union...
Personally I see similarities between now and the 18th century (1700's) English speaking world (including America) just before the 1st Great Awakening. This included a sexual revolution just before the Awakening, political persecution, squelching opposing speech, and a large push for deism then atheism.
In other words, we've been here before. And we came out of it without getting into a dictatorship. Instead, we became spiritually and politically freer. The question is, are enough Americans today led by the Spirit to take us into the next Great Awakening?
Stupid. Neither cars nor "big oil" caused the Modern Warm Period. Even though the law is retroactive and looks at one year in the past (year 2000), oil or gas businesses doing business in Vermont this year have real reason to worry that they'll be punished in the future for year 2024's "greenhouse gas".
Don't be surprised if all oil and gas companies quit doing business in Vermont.
1920 presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs' (Socialist party) campaign slogan was "For President, Convict No. 9653".
According to this morning's AT article, Debs' popularity skyrocketed for a 3rd party candidate after he was convicted of speaking against our going into WW1, then his popularity tanked after President Harding pardoned him.
...each of whom gave their two cents about who should be the Republican front-runner’s vice presidential pick
General Michael Flynn. The fact that his wife stuck with him through the political persecution he's already faced is a resume enhancer that they have the best chance of withstanding the persecution of daring to be Trump's VP.
And Flynn knowns better than anybody not named "Trump" how badly the deep state needs to learn to code.
ALL of the current lawfare against Trump wouldn’t exist.
I respectfully disagree. For instance, Bragg was a NY attorney doing NY state lawfare against Trump. But at least there'd be no more federal lawfare against Trump (assuming he would have actually cleaned out the deep state).