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Jan 30, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1/ How Republics are lost: thread for those who care. "A Republic, ma'am. If you can keep it", Benjamin Franklin famously said in 1787. What did he mean? The Founders knew history. They were trying to improve on the longest-surviving Republic in history: Rome. Republic
2/ is a Latin word, meaning "that which belongs to all the people". Rome was a Republic for nearly 500 years. We are not even close to that record. Rome had a Senate, which was similar to the British House of Lords, and representatives of the middle and working class, the Tribuni
Mar 17, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1/ What on Earth is bottom-feeder #Bannon doing in Italy? He is apparently trying to create some sort of populist "academy" in a medieval monastery. A few questions come to mind. Who stands to benefit from this, or, as the Romans used to say, Cui prodest? washingtonpost.com
Italian populists are shamelessly pro-Russia. Their wannabe dictator Interior Minister Salvini visits Moscow routinely and was implicated in a scheme to funnel Kremlin money to his party using a huge fake sale of diesel fuel.
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