America, Like Rome, Is at the End of the Republican Era, Says Historian Ferguson

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It seems to me that the institution of the republic in America today is being eroded by a latent civil war in which political defeat is too costly. This is what dismantled the Roman Republic and paved the way for empire, says American historian Niall Ferguson. In a wide-ranging interview, he discusses, for example, Trump’s agenda, the conflict with China, polarization in America, and his own conversion to Christianity. “Let’s face it, after the …