Solve the mystery of Trump’s currency: the “Marian’s stick” that will completely alienate the United States

Source: Dante by the Lethe

If he really only wanted to "cut leeks"... that would be great.

Today I want to talk about Trump, who is about to take office. He chose to issue a meme coin named after himself in a high-profile manner on the eve of taking office. As seen in public reports, the coin soared by more than 20,000% in a short period of time. Currently, The total market value exceeds US$20 billion.

To be honest, it took me a whole day to convince myself that this was not Fake News as Lao Chuan often said, because I thought this thing was so nonsense. A US president-elect chose to publish his own in a high-profile manner on the eve of his inauguration. Meins? The effect of this smash was no less than that of a nun with both virtues and arts and devout faith who chose to make a small movie in high profile before she was canonized as a saint by the Holy See. I once wondered if Trump was not ready to do it anymore.

But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that he may indeed have a plan of his own - but this plan, if it succeeds, is likely to push the future of the United States and even all mankind into an unknown and high-risk abyss.

Please allow me to use a long article to explain to you the logic of Trump’s actions and the costs and risks he will pay.

Before I officially start writing the article, I would like to apologize and explain to the two groups of readers that this article will definitely offend.

The first wave of readers were die-hard Sichuan fans in China.

If you are an old reader of mine, you should know that I am an author who has always been friendly and gentle towards Trump in the Simplified Chinese self- media circle. Many of my first readers and friends are Trump sympathizers and even die-hard supporters. . But I think it’s okay to sympathize with and support Trump, but it must not turn into a personality cult. If you support Trump until the end, you will create a saying: “We will firmly support whatever Trump affirms; whatever Trump opposes, we will firmly support him. We will resolutely criticize." So what is the essential difference between your support for Sichuan and the various extreme personality cult concepts that you hate and oppose? It is not only a departure from the ideals of liberal conservatism with worthy supporters, but also the greatest departure from the ideals of modern social democracy and the rule of law.

What we believe in and follow are ideas and systems, but never and should not be individuals. This truth is even higher than all ideological disputes. Those who do not recognize it do not possess modernity. In the world of Water Margin, the black silk Li Kui, the eldest brother Song Jiang who kills people when asked to do so, and kills children when asked to do so, is more suitable for his image.

The second wave of readers are probably the legendary “coin industry tycoons”.

In this article I will tend to deny the positive value of memecoins (note, only memecoins, not all cryptocurrencies).

But even if I say something so cautiously, I guess there will still be people who play coin games and come over to criticize me - do you dare to say that? You don’t understand economics at first glance!

I have no choice but to get on the ship. Is the benefit relevant? I generally do not deny the value of meme coins, just as I generally do not advise friends who have returned from traveling somewhere in the southwest and bought specialties such as "silver combs" or "chicken blood jade" at high prices to tell them directly: This is a piece of shit. Not worth much money.

But I still feel magical about this inevitable accusation - when did it start? Has the recognition of meme coins, altcoins, and air coins become a symbol of understanding economics?

I think this accusation is a typical logical fallacy. If you don’t play it, you definitely don’t understand? Following this line of thinking, a person who criticizes drug abuse can also be characterized as not understanding enjoyment, and a person who criticizes prostitution can be questioned as to whether he is a eunuch. It would also be very difficult for believers of the People's Temple or Aum Shinrikyo to come back to life through corpses. But those who criticized and condemned them for killing innocent people and committing suicide "don't even know what the true God is."

I may be exaggerating, but what I want to emphasize is that any effective discussion is not achieved by criticizing people. In this article, I will list the reasons why my evaluation of Enigma Coin generally tends to be negative. If anyone can refute these reasons with good evidence, please leave a message to refute.

But I don’t accept any criticism that comes up and says, “You don’t understand.”

The two easiest hats in the world are: "You don't understand" and "You have ulterior motives" - in other words, the legendary "either stupid or bad".

I always suspect and like that the person who says this is actually neither stupid nor bad.

Okay, the armor stacking is completed. If you accept my two cognitions above, then I will take you on a journey of thinking.

1. Meme coins are not coins

Here, I must first educate my friends who don’t understand this industry at all. Although the Memecoin issued by Trump this time is a digital cryptocurrency, it is a digital cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. But the issuance logic of the two is essentially different.

To use a vivid metaphor, Bitcoin is more like gold in the real world. Its total issuance is based on its mathematical model and is bound by natural mathematical laws. In other words, even Satoshi Nakamoto, who first proposed and issued Bitcoin, , he also cannot decide how many Bitcoins to issue. The generation of Bitcoins is determined by countless "mining machines" around the world that mine through computing power.

This is not the case with meme coins. Strictly speaking, meme coins are not even worthy of being called a currency. It is just a digital private stamp, or a digital commemorative medal. How many meme coins are issued initially depends entirely on the "coin owner" who issues it. The currency owner is the only "mine" and manufacturer of meme coins.

In fact, the meme coin thing was just a silly joke among Internet geeks at first. For example, in 2013, Dogecoin was issued by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer. Its mascot was the famous dogecoin. The emoticon pack of Shiba Inu, the coin issuer is almost telling you clearly that we are just kidding, and those who are willing to buy this coin are giving us money for our creativity.

However, later in the craziness of "nothing can be speculated" in the Internet circle, a very small number of meme coins unexpectedly continued their trading value.

To this day, the issuance and circulation of meme coins are still highly similar to online gambling - coin issuers and traders need to first exchange US dollars for a certain number of solana (a kind of voucher) on a website to register their own memes. currency wallet, and then you can start transactions or issue coins. This website will not effectively review the currency issuance qualifications of the currency issuer.

So in theory, everyone (you don’t even need to be a human being, even if you really bring a Shiba Inu) can issue “coins” on this kind of platform. The value of meme coins after they are issued depends entirely on how many people are willing to pay how much money. Buy it - in other words, the value of a meme coin depends entirely on how large a "value consensus" it can establish among its fan base, and in turn depends on who its promoters are. It is a pure way to increase the popularity of celebrities. A means of realizing arbitrage.

Does it sound like meme coins are less like a currency and more like signed photos, personal stamps or commemorative medals that idols sent privately to fans in the past? Yes, aside from the fancy technical packaging that floats on the surface, the essence of meme coins is such a thing. It is different from Bitcoin. It has nothing to do with the underlying technology or decentralization - even the issuance mechanism of meme currency is exactly the opposite of Bitcoin. It is more centralized than traditional currency, and the center is its currency issuance. who.

Highlights, this is very important and will be used later.

Because of this, on the sol chain platform where Trump announced the issuance of coins this time, millions of rice coins are announced to be issued every year, and those that can survive the first month of coin issuance still have trading value (that is, your hands There is not one in a million meme coins on the market that want to sell but still have people willing to buy them). 99.9999% of meme coins are essentially a stupid game and online gambling.

To sum up, compared to real currency, meme coins do not have any qualifications to become a real currency.

First of all, there was no reserve when it was issued. Although a few meme coin owners have promised that if their meme coins fall below a certain issuance price, they will provide holders with a one-to-one exchange, but so far no fool has actually In doing so, all currency issuers eventually chose to cash out and run away.

Secondly, it does not have a central bank for effective control and supervision.

Whether meme coins will have a "rat warehouse" problem and whether the currency owner is ready to completely cash out and run away depends purely on the currency owner's personal mood and conscience. In the face of the huge temptation of interests, so far there is no issuer of meme coins. Those that can survive more than three years without completely cashing out. Facts have proved that human consensus and conscience have not advanced to the extent that the central bank's regulatory system can be "decentralized" and a currency value can be maintained solely by a "gentleman's agreement" between an Internet celebrity and his fans. Don't study human nature.

Finally, and most importantly, it does not have natural scarcity like traditional currencies or even Bitcoin.

The amount of traditional currency issuance must be anchored to its reserves. Excessive issuance will cause hyperinflation. The issuance quantity of Bitcoin is even more anchored in mathematics. Unless God makes 1+1 no longer equal 2, no one can allow Bitcoin to be over-issued.

But where is the scarcity guarantee for meme coins? No, it all depends on the mood of the currency owner.

For example, Trump announced this time that he will issue 200 million Trump Coins first, and then 800 million more in the future, for a total of one billion. This number purely depends on his own mood and character.

This is the reason why most meme currency owners will choose to cash out and run away at a certain node - human nature cannot withstand the postgraduate examination without rigid constraints.

And I think what King Wang said about issuing coins this time is a clear sign. Pay attention to his tweets. I issued this kind of coins to "celebrate" our victory.

May I ask what should be released during the celebration? Signed photos, commemorative medals?

When are you going to hear about a country issuing an extra amount of fiat currency to celebrate something?

Even if it does happen, this kind of country is basically close to being finished.

Therefore, Meme Coin is not a currency at all. Its nicknames of altcoin and counterfeit currency actually reveal its essence.

But after such an analysis, a question arises - why does Trump, who should be aware of the properties of meme coins, still insist on issuing meme coins?

Mr. Sichuan, who is not short of money, will not be like those low-end internet celebrities who only want to "cut another wave of leeks" and cheat some money, right? If this were to happen, he should have had it cut after four years.

Of course, he is not. They are very ambitious——

So many years later, when Americans look back on this incident, they may wish: Mr. Sichuan, you really only cheated some money to cut leeks... That would be great!

2. Does Trump just want to "cut leeks"?

Let me first refute a rumor for Lao Chuan. After this incident happened, many people in the Chinese and Chinese Internet circles spread rumors that "Trump issued currency and made huge profits (or even "cash out") xxx billion US dollars" and so on. This statement is inaccurate and even ignores the facts in order to attack Trump.

Whether it is 24 billion US dollars or the latest hundreds of billions of US dollars, it refers to the total market value of the "Trump coins" currently issued, and using common sense in stocks, we will know that the total market value cannot be directly equivalent to "cash out" How much is the "big profit"? The family has millions, and the hair does not count. If Trump really plans to imitate some Internet celebrities who are eager for quick success and cash out all the "Trump Coins" in his hands, then it will be similar to the "smashing" of stocks, and the value of Trump Coins will quickly shrink and fall. His arbitrage space will shrink significantly along with his own credibility. Although the amount of money finally cashed out will be huge, it will be far lower than the current market value of Trump Coin.

And to be honest, Lao Chuan has his own industry, and he is not a poor ordinary Internet celebrity who is eager to cash in on his fame. It is ridiculous to attribute the reason for his currency issuance to how much pension money he can earn for himself - according to 2024 According to annual statistics, Trump’s total assets are as high as US$3.2725 billion.

I would like to ask, what is the difference between the US$3.2 billion that he actually spent on himself and the US$24 billion that he is rumored to have made this time?

So the rush to say that Trump "made huge profits" of tens of billions is superficial and ridiculous.

The level of ridiculousness is similar to that of an old farmer in the countryside who imagines that he will become an emperor in the future, and then "the whole village's feces will be under my control."

With the heart of a low-end Internet celebrity, he has penetrated the belly of Uncle Sichuan. Quite funny.

So why does Lao Chuan, who is not short of money, issue coins again?

I think, based on the current information, what he wants is to kidnap or privatize the Republican campaign funds.

Campaign funds are the blood of the operation of the two-party system in the United States. The fight between the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States or within them is essentially all about money.

The just past 2024 U.S. election broke records again and became the most expensive election in U.S. history, with the two parties spending a total of $15.9 billion. This order of magnitude is actually the size at which the market value of "Trump Coin" can really be "used."

But the wool comes from the sheep. The campaign funds of the two parties are ultimately collected from voters or industrial giants who support them. However, how to collect, manage and spend this money has always been the internal decision of the Republican and Democratic parties to determine the distribution of power. the highlight.

I still remember that during the 2016 Hillary-Trump campaign, the Democratic Party had an intriguing internal scandal. At that time, Obama, who was about to leave office, had a list of his main funders when he participated in the campaign. According to the Democratic Party According to traditional rules, Obama should hand over this crucial "financier list" directly to his "successor" Hillary during the preparations for the campaign.

But Obama just didn’t do that! His choice was to hand the list to the Democratic Party 's federal headquarters, which would then forward the list to Hillary.

Doing this delayed a lot of things. Hillary lost to Trump that year, and Obama had a share of the blame. The two of them were very unhappy later.

But why does Obama have to do this? This explains a lot.

Some people say that this reflects the long-term discord between the Obama family and the Clinton family. Obama is actually very reluctant to use his reputation to endorse Hillary in fundraising.

But some people say that Obama's move is an attempt to end the long-standing bad habit of privately granting "fundraising rights" and secret transactions to major families within the Democratic Party. Very similar to the "Godfather" style tradition of New York gangsters.

But no matter what, whoever has the "fund-raising power" is the big brother, and it will block the fate of the party's candidates this time.

This truth is common to both the Republican and Democratic parties.

On the Republican side, after encountering the betrayal of the Republican establishment in the "Burning of Capitol Hill" incident in 2021, Trump, who will make a comeback in 2024, has been thinking about one thing, which is to try to transform the traditional Republican Party into one that is loyal to the Republican Party. His own MAGA party. And he was actually close to accomplishing this last year.

The biggest sign of Trump’s success is that the campaign funds raised by the Republican Party in the 2024 election no longer go into the Republican Party’s party headquarters accounts as in the past, but into the private accounts of the Trump campaign team. How will the campaign money be collected in this way? As for what strategy to use for propaganda, who to invest money for and who not to invest, all are decided by Trump’s personal signature.

This change. As a result, in the 2024 election, all Republican campaign activities did not include the same projects that Trump considered "unnecessary" or even opposed to him in 2020.

It has to be said that he does spend his money smarter than the Republican establishment.

And you can imagine that if this pattern continues in the future, even if Trump is limited by his term and cannot participate in the next election four years later, the "successor" promoted by the Republican Party must come from the Trump team, or " MAGA Party”.

But how to ensure that this “ideal future” is realized?

The answer may be just that- Trump Coin.

We have analyzed the article in the first part. Meme coins (this word is too difficult to type, so we will call it meme coins from now on) actually have no actual value in themselves. In the past, they have only been used to monetize the influence of Internet celebrities. " Cut another wave of leeks and run away."

But when it comes to Trump, he may develop a different use of meme currency- Trump may use it to "dilute" the enthusiasm of voters for the Republican Party that only erupted during the election period in the United States, and instead It translates into personal, long-lasting support and admiration for Trump.

Let’s put it plainly:

If you are a center-right or right-wing American voter who agrees with the ideals of the Republican Party and basically agrees with Trump’s ideas, then your main method of expressing support for the Republican Party and Trump in the past was to donate to party accounts during the campaign. , at most, register as a volunteer to physically canvass votes.

But as soon as Trump’s Trump Coin came out, the situation changed. Now as long as you have right-wing enthusiasm and want to shout "Greater America, King Trump!" or "Make America great again!", you can log in to sol immediately. Chain, use the real money on hand to buy a few Trump coins, and then tell yourself that I support Trump with practical actions!

In this way, this part of the support is conveniently solidified by Trump Coin.

In this way, the enthusiasm of American right-wing voters has been digested (or, more accurately, "accumulated").

But please note that the ultimate beneficiary of this digestion and energy accumulation is no longer the Republican Party, but Trump personally.

Four years later, when the Republican Party needs to use this energy to organize campaigns, they will find that it may be difficult to raise money using traditional fundraising methods. Supporters will say, I have already spent the money to buy Sichuan coins! By then, the Republican Party will have to beg from Trump, who has already "accumulated" support funds from the American right in advance.

And whether the money should be given or not, to whom specifically? It all depends on the face of the "Sichuan Emperor".

We can even make a more extreme assumption (although based on existing economic common sense, I currently think this assumption is too science fiction):

Suppose that after four years, the value of Trump Coin does not return to zero like ordinary meme coins, but it is still circulating at a high transaction value. What happens?

The conclusion is that it may really become a "passive token" for allocating campaign funds within the American right-wing political group——

For example, the words and deeds of a certain person running for parliament in a certain place are highly praised by Lao Chuan. Good work deserves reward! Then Trump could give him tens of thousands of "Trump coins" and let him exchange them with right-wing supporters for campaign funds, and he might be successfully elected as a congressman.

If this assumption really comes true, it means that Trump will not only control the financial power of the Republican Party in the four-year US presidential election, but also control the congressional and gubernatorial campaigns in various US states, and even the center-right media. Financial power in publicity.

This will be a horribly detailed control, and its mobilization and dictatorship will be something that no American president has ever possessed.

Therefore, Trump’s vision is vicious. As explained in the first part, meme currency is fundamentally different from Bitcoin. It is not decentralized, but precisely more centralized than traditional currency. It is precisely because Trump saw this that he chose this, which is currently a joke, to try to fulfill his ambitions.

The emperor of ancient Rome printed his face on gold coins, which was only a nominal possession of monetary sovereignty. In fact, the Roman emperor had no way to control and restrict the flow of political funds.

But once the "Trump Coin" issued by Trump is implemented, it will really have an unprecedented terrifying control over American politics.

However, for any practice of strong ambitions, someone will always pay the price.

We have to ask, what price will the United States pay for Trump's actions?

3. The “Marian’s Stick” that alienated the United States

In the history of ancient Rome, there is a famous reference to "Marius' stick". Historians say that it was the stick of Marius that spurred Rome's transformation and alienation from a republic to an empire.

Roughly speaking, this period of history happened like this - Ancient Rome originally pursued a citizen-soldier system that combined soldiers and farmers. Roman citizens usually farmed and did business. Once a war broke out, they had to abandon their livelihood. , provide their own weapons and food, and participate in defending their homeland and country.

However, as the intensity and duration of Rome's wars against foreign nations gradually increased and intensified, the citizen soldier system gradually became unable to adapt to the development of the war. So after the tragic Second Punic War and the Jugurtha War, the consul Marius promoted the "Marian Military Reform" named after him.

Generally speaking, the content of the Marius Army Reform was that the original citizen conscripts were transformed into professional recruits, which stipulated that all willing and qualified Roman citizens, including those without property, could enlist in the army. The state allocates funds directly from finance and taxation and gives them to provincial governors or wartime Dictatores, who purchase ordnance or convert it into food and pay, and distribute it to their soldiers.

In the short term, Marius's military reforms did greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the Roman army, and Rome began to expand rapidly.

However, in the long run, a fatal change caused by the transformation of the Marius Army to Rome was the qualitative change in the attributes of the soldiers - they were no longer simple citizens who were concerned about their distant hometowns and their wives, children and children, but became a group of generals or governors. A mercenary who can do anything from giving out money, giving food, and promising rewards.

The financial power structure used by Rome to maintain the republic has also changed - in the past, citizen soldiers provided their own weapons and dry food to defend their homes and the country, and the entire financial system that supported the army was chaotic and decentralized. However, now they control the soldiers' food and salary and become their food and clothing parents. The money concentrator became the governor of the provinces.

The soldiers even directly called the governor "Dominus (Latin: Lord, Master)", indicating absolute loyalty to him personally.

As a result, the governor could not lose his tail, so that he could cross the Rubicon like Caesar did later, return to threaten the Senate, and become a lifelong Dictator. The road was paved.

It was at this time that the name "Marius' stick" appeared. The soldiers tied their sacks of supplies, military pay, and spoils of war to a stick and carried it. And jokingly called it "Marius' stick".

The concern for property as citizens was thus replaced, and the soldiers were only loyal to the stick of Marius and the Dominus behind the stick who provided them with food and clothing.

This stick finally triggered the fission of Roman history.

Comparing the past and present, we will find that the "Trump Coin" issued by Trump this time is likely to become the "Marius' stick" that triggers the fission of American history.

Originally in the United States, although the prestige and influence of political figures like the president are huge, they cannot be discounted immediately.

The president 's appeal requires the assistance of a whole set of political parties and pro-party media, foundations, and especially their respective financial systems to complete the mobilization of their supporters. transformed into political power.

In this transformation process, the president's appeal will be restricted by this series of intermediary tools. In the process of completing this mobilization for the president, a large number of social elites will ask: Is the president's call legal? Is it consistent with American political traditions and norms? Is it in line with your own vital interests?

If it is not met, this mobilization cannot be achieved.

This constitutes a powerful objective binding force that prevents politicians from acting arbitrarily.

The most typical example is actually the "Burning of Capitol Hill" incident in 2021.

Although Trump had the intention and power to mobilize his supporters to "climb the tower" during this process, he was unable to mobilize the government and the Republican Party system that were theoretically obedient to him to give legitimacy and follow-up support to this kind of tower charging. Therefore, the movement eventually failed.

Even Trump's own Twitter account was banned after the incident.

But the new method of play invented by Trump is likely to bypass this mature supervision system - because Trump directly "discounts" his influence through Trump Coin. As mentioned above, this The system will also replace the entire set of fundraising agencies used by the Republican Party to "accumulate energy" for right-wing support in the United States. If Trump needs it in the future, he can use Trump Coin to directly send the most needed funds for political activities to his supporters.

In this way, the political power of voters supporting Trump is immediately converted into financial power, and then the financial power is transformed into political power, directly pouring water into Trump 's die-hard supporters. Just like the electric drive used in Hitler's beloved Porsche Tiger tank, this bypass bypassed the original elite-controlled restriction system of American politics.

The result is that, just as after Marius’ military reform, provincial governors were no longer controlled by the republic, Trump finally got rid of the constraints and control of the “deep state” (actually the existing party mobilization system) that he hated. .

But just like the stick of Marius paved the way for Caesar to "cross the Rubicon", what will Trump do with his "stick of Marius" that is no longer restricted? No one knows.

Please remember that a "convenient way" to bypass the constraints of the original system is always created by an ambitious careerist, and is eventually distorted and corrupted to the point of absurdity by a group of greedy speculators.

During the troubled times of the "Crisis of the Third Century" in the Roman Empire, there was such a ridiculous thing - the Praetorian Guards set a price for the position of emperor and held a public auction, and the person with the highest price got it. The majestic Rome became a "cow" that the emperor and the Praetorian Guards jointly exploited the people for profit. Rome's originally noble "public affairs" became an ugly business. This was the inevitable consequence of the Mariusian military reform, which had the governor directly feeding the army when the system was established.

By the same token, if Trump’s path of issuing coins goes according to his plan, the U.S. presidential election is likely to go astray like this in the end—

For example, a certain person announces his candidacy for president and relies on extreme policies to please the extreme people. After the election is successful or even if he only creates a climate of dissent, he publicly announces the "issuance of currency" and then cuts a wave of leeks to achieve financial freedom. Run away.

Then politics will no longer be politics, and slogans, especially extreme slogans, will become tools for those with ulterior motives to seek huge profits.

Although I believe that Trump himself does not have this ambition - his goal is probably because of his experience in the past four years, which is determined to retaliate, to achieve his "crossing the Rubicon" to the Democratic and Republican establishments, and then to take control of the overall situation.

But there is no doubt that he will become the "initiator" at this point - because he has opened up the exchange channel between politics and money that was originally impossible to open. It has laid the foundation for more convenient systemic corruption in the United States.

Because - I might as well reiterate it again - any "convenient way" to bypass the constraints of the existing system is always created by an ambitious careerist, and will eventually be distorted and corrupted by a group of greedy speculators.

What is the influence and appeal of a political figure like the president?

It is supposed to be a social instrument. It is not the influence of Trump that you hold entirely by yourself. People support you, Trump, because you represent a certain political desire of quite a few Americans.

However, when Trump discounts the social influence of this public tool through the issuance of coins, the financial power of the money he obtains is private, even if Trump reinvests the funds in political activities through "Trump Coin" Among them, the political influence derived from it only represents his personal will.

This will be the most sophisticated "quasi-money laundering" (laundering influence) and the most open-minded way of turning public money into private interests.

And can the American system contain Trump’s rampage? It seems difficult at the moment.

It is true that Congress can pass a law similar to "the president or president-elect is not allowed to issue meme coins." However, such a law also needs to be signed by the president and recognized by the Federal Supreme Court as not unconstitutional before it can take effect.

That is to say, it must go through the three "cheese holes" of legislation, administration, and judiciary at the same time to finally achieve it and fill the gap in the institutional cage that the founding fathers of the United States could not even dream of.

But at least while Trump is in office, with his current influence and strength, he will definitely not allow such self-flagellating bills to be passed.

What's more, issuing coins may be just the first in a series of similar attempts by Trump in the future. Trump himself is a top smart businessman, and Musk is helping him. To be honest, I don’t really believe that a group of politicians can outsmart a team led by these two business geniuses.

As a result, a struggle between Ibrahimovic and the Senate over the destruction of the existing order and the maintenance of the existing order is about to begin with Trump's return to the White House.

And this will bet on the direction and destiny of the United States for hundreds of years.

Two thousand years ago, a very similar struggle was staged in Rome, but with the reform of Marius' army, with Caesar crossing the Rubicon River, with the people at Caesar's funeral being hungry and cold and Antony's sophistry, the call for recklessness With the call of a "New Caesar", the Republicans were defeated miserably by the Caesars. Rome gradually transformed from the republican era into an imperial system, and then inevitably and rapidly corrupted, and finally ended absurdly in the barbarian Praetorian Guards' cry for the throne.

And this time, will the Republican resistance be more powerful and resolute? Or is the new Augustus heading towards his coronation?

The overture is over,

The curtain of the theater is opening,

We'll see.