2/28/2023 0 Comments Articles of the fallen![]() ![]() Watts, a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, is a scholar of the later ancient world, who takes his readers from republican Rome to Republican Washington with a resounding theme that anyone promising to restore lost greatness is probably up to no good. ![]() ![]() President Trump earns his place with his inaugural address promising to “make America great again,” President Reagan with a speech in 1969 on the theme of “decline and fall” in which the greatest empire in Western history collapsed in bureaucracy, excessive welfare payments, taxes on the middle class and long-haired students wearing makeup. ![]() This is a history of Rome in which the first name is that of Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan’s name almost the last. ![]()
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