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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Kean University Professors Christopher M. Bellitto and Frank Argote-Freyre hear a rhyme from over the millennia.

We look much further back (than some other writers whom they cite–ed.) to see how the Roman Republic, which lasted for about 450 years, transformed itself into a dictatorship in only a few decades.

We are sad to report that our modern republic – like Rome at that moment – is not well. The era of Trump offers interesting parallels with the reign of the dictator Sulla (138-78 BCE), who marched on Rome from exile in 82 BCE and slaughtered his enemies.

Follow the link for their parsing of parallels.

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*Mark Twain.

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