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At some point in 2023, the number of views of the hashtag Roman Empire on TikTok passed a billion.

This social media craze originated when girlfriends began asking their boyfriends

how often they thought about the Roman Empire.

The typical answer was supposedly every day.

Are we Rome?

American historians and public intellectuals may not ask this question every day, but they ask it quite frequently. In 2007, Cullen Murphy published a book with that

title. He revisited the subject in April 2021, drawing breathless parallels between the scenes at the

Capitol the previous January 6th

and the sack of Rome. Outside, Murphy wrote, a pandemic raged, recalling the waves of plague that

periodically swept across the Roman Empire. This kind of historical hyperventilation has been a

recurrent feature of the Trump era. Writing for time in December

2018, Edward Watts asserted that the most significant danger old republics like ours face is not

the sudden assault of an aspiring autocrat, but the slow erosion of their cultural and institutional

defences. Tim Elliott drew an even more direct connection in his November 2020 essay for Politico,

in which he compared Donald Trump to Julius Caesar.

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