...to read Niall Ferguson, interviewed by Nathan Gardels of Noema: America is in a Late Republic Stage - Like Rome. I admit that I am tired of the decades of discussion that America is Rome (which fell, doncha know, so smarten up) but he makes some excellent points here.
Let’s just break it down briefly. Many people wrongly thought that it would be beneficial to Vladimir Putin if Donald Trump were re-elected. I don’t think this war is going to be ended on Putin’s terms, if it’s going to be ended. Secondly, maximum pressure is now back on Iran. That’s important. Thirdly, tariffs have been increased on China, so the pressure is on China. Little Rocket Man in North Korea is still waiting to get whatever is coming to him, but I don’t think it’s going to be a love letter from the Trump administration.
I got this from a link from The Free Press.
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My friend David Reaboi uses the same phrasing, "Late Stage Republic." I don't agree, though, that the analogy holds much. The real problem with our system is the bureaucracy, not the republican aspects; it's the administrative state, which was not contemplated by the Constitution and is badly controlled by the constitutional elements.
If we want to fix America, we could certainly use better Congressmen. We could use better judges. We might prefer different Presidents. Far more than any of that, though, we need to dismantle the bureaucracies run by unelected "civil servants" who hire each other, write most of the real laws (under the guise of 'regulations'), and have effectively absorbed most of both the legislative and executive functions from the constitutional parts of the government.
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