ANGUS: The Gladiator Games of the American Caesar

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ANGUS: The Gladiator Games of the American Caesar

Charlie Angus / The Resistance - June 17, 2026

EXCERPT: "Over the last twenty years, the right wing has actively targeted the notion of American democracy. They drove campaigns of gerrymandering and voter suppression by falsely claiming that the United States wasn’t really a democracy, it was meant to be a Republic.

Like the good old days of Rome.

Under this Republic, a republican strongman would rule without constraint. This is why they pushed to strip any limits on presidential power. They saw a Republican president stepping forth like Caesar Augustus or Tiberius. Instead, they got Trump, and he headed straight to Nero and Commodus.

In March 2025, French Senator Claude Malheuret warned Europe that it could no longer trust the United States, as it had descended into the decadence of a failing Roman-style empire. . . . "

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