I thought that your essay was accurate and a view that I had seen before, but maybe there'sthea slightest of chances that the orange dipstick is ignorant but not as dimb as he appears and acts.

My analysi still leans toward the Hitler analogies, but both seem correct to me but view through two different lenses: your Roman analysis through societal/ political kaleidoscpe and the Hitler one through a purelymoral and strategic one.

When I first viewed this Netflix documentay series, it actually terrified me: "Hitler and the Nazis:Evil on Trial"