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Foreign Policy magazine published an article in which his writer sought to clarify the similarities and difference in the comparisons that link the American President Donald Trump And the emperor Julius Caesar The founder of the ancient Roman Empire, in terms of their common features.
The article was written by American women’s activist Donna Zuckerberg, author of the book “Not all the dead men are white: classics and hatred of women in the digital age.”
She started its article with a brief phrase published by the leader of the democratic minority in US Senate Chuck Shomer on the X -Etter platform – in which he said, “Nero is having fun. Trump plays golf.”
This phrase derives its importance in the context of the article that it came at a time when the global economy was reeling Customs tariffs The American President imposed last April.
Induction of history
Shomer read history to compare Trump andNero The last of the Roman emperors, who is famous for his crazy behavior and burned a city Rome Old.
In its article, Zuckerberg compared Trump with characters of ancient Roman history. It is similar to Julius Caesar in his focus of the Republic’s authority in one tyrannical person.
Or that it is like the Roman Emperor Caligula, the Hald Heart and Flaf, or similar to the Roman Popular Politician Tiberius Grakos or the general and the preacher, which is irritated by the Boelius Claudius Boltcher.
But Trump is often compared to Biolius Caesar, who led his soldiers in 49 BC via the Rubicon River, the river that represented the border between the Csalbin Gal province in northern Italy, and the Rome -controlled area.
Rubicon crossing
As soon as he crossed the Rubicon River, violating the laws that limit its powers, Jlius Caesar said his famous saying, “Now the matter was judged.”
After 5 years of the civil war – specifically in the year 44 BC – was erected for life, and then briefly assassinated.
Since then, the phrase rollonon passes has become a term indicating that one has been going through the point of no return.
However, Zuckerberg admits that people do not know precisely the history in which Caesar has crossed the Rubicon River, nor from anywhere across. But she cited what the psychologist and writer Mary L. said. Trump, the daughter of the president’s brother, said that the rivers – or rather the points of no return – through which Trump expressed.
Julian Zilizer: History events are often vague for those who are trying to drop it on the current reality
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The author of the article stated that from time to time, one of the critics announces that Trump has crossed a river or others.
These signs are so repeated that only days after the Shomer Publisher, in which Trump compared Benron, the historian Michel René Salzman published an influential article in the newspaper (Zocalo Bablack Square) under the title “Stop comparing Trump’s violation of the law by crossing Julius Caesar Rubicon River.”
According to Zuckerberg, the use of metaphorical phrase is not limited to Trump’s critics.
The rioters of Trump supporters who stormed the Congress building on January 6, 2021, carried signs of the famous hashtag (#crossstherubicon), meaning (#crossed), referring to the outbreak of the rollon’s speech in both the e -mail platforms.
From the point of view of the historian Salzman, Julius Caesar wanted to maintain mainly on the Roman political system while assuming responsibility. When through the Rubicon River, his goal was specific and limited, as he did not have a desire to reconstitute the republic or eliminate the way Roman policy works.
Both are popular
Bid is not difficult to make a comparison between Trump and Caesar, both of them – in the eyes of Zuckerberg – Shaabi, but Trump is a president who is not popular, as his popularity rate was in the first 100 days since he took office is the lowest for an American president for 80 years.
In contrast, Julius Caesar had a broad base of support as a generous sponsor and a famous general.
Both of them were obscene, but Caesar was famous for being a brilliant military strategic expert and a man, and he was respected even by his fellow scholars such as the philosopher, politician and the famous Romanian preacher Cicero, whose letters were to Caesar full of quotes that indicate wide knowledge of ancient Greek literature.
Perhaps this is what prompted Piolius Caesar until he quotes – after crossing the Rubicon River – from the Greek comedian Minander, his famous phrase, “The matter was spent.”
Despite everything that was mentioned in the article, his writer believes that the construction of Trump’s mistakes seems to some extent outside the subject you are dealing with. President Trump – in her opinion – is never like a tyrant of a completely different political system that prevailed more than two thousand years ago.
An useless practice
She described an attempt to predict what will come after that by extrapolating ancient Roman history as not being understood, but it is not feasible.
For his part, Julian Zeilizer, the column writer in Foreign Policy and Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, sees that history events are often vague for those who are trying to drop it on the current reality.
In his appreciation, Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon River may be for the Romans at that time an event from a series of events that could not be visualized at all, as it eliminated all the standards and rules recognized at the time.
Zelizer asserts that the comparison between Trump and Caesar ultimately tells you about the person who resorted to this more than it tells you about any of the two relevant leaders.
The lesson learned from the borrowing of the term Robicon, it indicates that when the left uses it, it is discomfort with Trump’s behavior. When the right uses it, it means willingness to do a collective work, even if it is necessary to use violence.