Last November, Ted Cruz of Texas stood on the Senate floor and claimed that America, like ancient Rome, faced a moment of grave, existential danger. Heâ??s not the only one telling scary stories about ghosts in togas.
Over the past six months alone, media outlets (including this one) have averaged about one gloom-and-doom essay a month, citing everything from Americaâ??s cultural relativism to the increasing use of drones in military conflict to the spread of gay marriage as proof that Romeâ??s history is repeating itself.
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