So long as our republic stands we’ll probably be considering when and how it will end, with the fall of Rome as our ever-present point of comparison, suggests Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker.
It is, of course, Donald Trump, in his role as demagogue, that has led Gopnik to consider that question in his melancholic rumination. “What makes republics fragile are compacts of the very rich confiscating wealth in ways that makes injustice too palpable, and the demagogue who, usually rising as an opportunist among the oligarchs, can manipulate the incoherent discontent of the plebeians,” he writes.
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