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I just don't understand how someone interested in antiquity can possibly fall for Trumpism. The fall of the Roman Republic was presaged by a guy literally trying to get elected to office so that he could escape prosecution for illegal abuses of power, and the legal system standing aside and saying "yeah, we'll let you do that in order to maintain the peace" and then falling into civil war anyway.
How much of that sounds familiar..?
someone genuinely interested for intellectual reasons would likely not fall for it. I would imagine that a non-trivial percentage of "antiquity enjoyers" are very light on history substance and heavy on history feelz.
once the appropriate brain tickles have been pushed into their heads their "history substance" feed content becomes decidedly propagandized.
Agreed. Anyone who studies history should understand why Trumpism is bad and unsustainable.
But a lot of people are just in for the historical "aesthetics".
Aesthetics, plus the seductive appeal that pre-modern, pre-liberal-democratic societies (when the governments were authoritarian, the women were submissive, and the men "were men") have for reactionaries, incels, and cryptofacists.