Worth reconsidering in light of the present moment, and the last several years -- or even the last six months. I am posting it here because I haven't time to read it this morning, and want to get back to it when I do have time.
UPDATE: Also interesting is the Codevilla essay it begins with -- again, this is 2016 -- that declares that Trump will be the end of America as a republic.
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Schall and Deneen are arguably the two best Catholic political thinkers of the last century, with Brownson kinda edging in at the beginning.
Christopher Lasch was more an observer (and a good one).
Sadly all of them think alike. This is the Titanic.
It's hard for me to see Trump as being "the Second Emperor" because he didn't even have enough cronies to control the bureaucracy.
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