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The public-good principle of sacrificing oneself for the honor and glory of Rome; in the imperial context, Jiang treats it as politically dangerous.
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The public-good principle of sacrificing oneself for the honor and glory of Rome; in the imperial context, Jiang treats it as politically dangerous.
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Glossary
Defined by Jiang as Rome's laws, history or traditions, and institutions.
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Lucretia’s rape becomes the hinge from monarchy to republic because Roman honor converts injury into revenge rather than consolation.
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The Roman republic begins with Lucius Brutus turning private violation into revenge against the king and then enforcing law against his own sons.
diagnosis
Trump's imagined mission is to purge globalism, liberalism, and multiculturalism from the American Republic, destroy the American empire in an unwinnable Iran war, and restore America as a republic focused on North America.
causal-chain
Napoleon succeeded in the 1799 coup because republican generals refused while he wanted to become the Caesar who ends the republic.
model
Jiang sees a recurrent pattern in Napoleon, Caesar, Hitler, and possibly Trump: myth-making politicians use patrons and savior images at the end of republics.
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Jiang presents Machiavelli not simply as an amoral strategist but as a democratic Florentine who wrote The Prince to raise political awareness in a republic.
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The Roman republic is a society governed by laws, tradition, and history embodied in patrician nobility.
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Jiang casts Byzantium not as a continuation of Rome but as a rejection of the Roman Republic because imperial bureaucracy becomes dominant.
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"Okay, so this couldn't possibly happen, right? So, these women are abducted, the fathers try to rescue them, and then the women say, hey,..."
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"They found Lucretia sitting in her room, prostrate with grief. As they entered, she burst into tears, and to her husband's inquiry whether all..."
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"It is for you, she said, to see that he gets in deserts. Although I acquit myself to the sin, I do not free..."
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"...king is forced out of Rome. And now, Rome is a republic. It's now run by the nobility. And a lot of people are..."
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"And a couple of the conspirators include two of Lucius Brutus' sons, okay? His two sons. And the conspiracy is found out, and all..."
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"...liberalism, and multiculturalism are cancers on the body of the American Republic. And you can't negotiate with cancers. You can't wait for cancers to..."
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"You must purge these cancers from the body of the American Republic with blood and fire. So, the divine mission for Trump is to..."
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"...now the head of the government, they get sick of the Republic. The Republic, it's corrupt, it's ineffectual. They want to establish their own..."
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"...the new Caesar who crushes the Rubicon and ends the Roman Republic, okay? And so what happens is Napoleon launches a coup d 'etat..."
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"And as a result, he destroyed the Roman Republic. Later on, we will study Hitler. Guess what, guys? Hitler follows the same pattern, okay?..."
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"-making genius, okay? That's really important to understand about Trump. Everyone's like, Trump is a terrible business person. He's lost a lot of money...."
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"...10 years, if Trump actually destroys the American people, the American republic, okay, then a pattern emerges in history, all right? And if this..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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After the ceasefire announcement, Jiang refuses to read the moment as peace.
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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