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Will America need a Caesar?

theblaze.com · 14d · first reportShare

Earlier this month, San Francisco’s Hamilton Society held a debate on a question that would have sounded absurd not long ago: Does America need a Caesar? Older Americans may scoff. Younger politically engaged Americans are less likely to. Many came of age after 9/11 amid corruption, institutional drift, and visible decline. Even a presidency that has slowed the Biden-era collapse has not repaired the deeper sense that the system no longer works. America needs a path out of cybernetic collapse that does not end in machine rule or technologically enhanced autocracy. From that premise, the temptation follows: If everything is broken, perhaps history’s oldest emergency remedy deserves a second look. But one does not simply “have a Caesar.” Critics who dismiss the whole discussion as live-action role-playing or strongman wish-casting have a point. A generation trained to think and talk rather than act will naturally produce elaborate theories of action it has never practiced. The Hamilton S