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Let me disambiguate this tweet at this auspicious moment after four years. The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. I will put this in perspective while taking you through history in context. (Thread). 🔥
No doubt betrayals from historical records are constant reminders that human history isn’t marked solely by acts of goodwill. Our politicos are about to make history but first let’s consider the category in which they long to ingratiate themselves owing to the current trajectory.
March 15th, better known as the Ides of March, marked the first half of the first month of the year in the Roman Calendar. In 44 BC, it also marked one of history’s most notorious betrayals and brutal political assassinations: that of Julius Caesar by his friend, Brutus. 
