townhall.com By Kurt Schlichter
All the Democrats out there announcing that as soon as they get power, they’re going to use the full weight of government to prosecute anybody who had anything to do with the Donald Trump administration reminds me of a historical analogue. They won’t recognize it because most of them don’t believe that history started until 1619, or maybe when Barack Obama got elected, and anything occurring before then was just dead white men doing dead white men stuff that doesn’t matter. But you know, it totally matters whether they like it or not.
So, there was once this guy, and he was a future dead white man, but go with me on this anyway. His name was Julius Caesar – you may have heard of him, or you may have gone to public school and one of our prestigious colleges, and therefore, you don’t know who he was. Well, he was a Roman nobleman without much money to start, but he was smart and a very good general, and he accumulated a lot of power, both political and military. In doing so, he made many enemies, especially among the establishment.
Anyway, he decided he was going to go to Gaul – that’s France, before all they did was make cheese and surrender – to conquer it. As a proconsul, a kind of governor/general, he had what was called “imperium” – the power to rule – and a bunch of legions to go with it. And boy, did those legionnaires ever conquer. They did not use their words. They used their swords. It was all very manly. And they didn’t have any Twitter lawyers telling them they were committing war crimes by winning. We have much to learn from the Romans, and no wonder real men think of them several times a day…
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