Two Words to End All Consideration of Voting for Trump
The best case against Trump. And really, you don't need a second one.
Source: National Archive/NewsmakersAt the beginning of September, an anonymous conservative writing under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus published an essay in the Claremont Review of Books laying out his reasons for voting for Donald Trump. The name presumably comes from the famed Roman consul who performed the devotio ritual, dedicating himself to the god of the underworld and covering his head with his toga before sacrificing himself in a spectacular feat of heroism at the Battle of Sentinum. “Dedicated to the Lords of Hell” seems an apt summary of the reaction to this essay.
It argues that America is now so decadent that it trembles on the brink of collapse into progressive decadence, the way the Roman Republic trembled on the eve of Caesar -- and the Goths.