Tired of being gouged, Secret Service moves out of Trump Tower and into a box on the sidewalk

[One_Brown_Mouse]

@fnordius

Another point to remember is that from the beginning, the Americans saw themselves as renewing the Roman Republic, holding heroes like Cinninnatus up as their role models.

That’s a hell of a narrative, from the 1950’s, about the 1700s. What are you using it for?

@fnordius

It is a popular illusion, that the republic was decent and imperial Rome decadent.

decency and decadence are similarly narrative… where are we going on this ride?

@fnordius

But when the Secret Service starts auctioning off the office, well, then we have long passed a point of no return.

And you lost me entirely.

Fun story. What are you saying? maybe use fewer dated allusions, and maybe don’t put the dozens and dozens of colonies with people from around the world into one box in terms of ‘what motivated Americans’.