What on Earth, the world wonders, can possibly explain the evolution of the lurid political cabaret now playing continuously in Washington? As it happens, history offers some clues. What became the Western Roman Empire lasted for just over 500 years, from 27 BC to 476 AD. During this time, countless political misadventures were encountered and addressed, sometimes cleverly and diplomatically, often violently. Juvenal, the satirical Roman poet, coined the expression bread and circuses to argue, around 100 AD, that this is what Roman citizens came to crave from government as those citizens abandoned their responsibility to monitor actual government performance. This popular longing for...
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