Though the refrain “Drain the swamp!” might be a favourite of Donald Trump’s, Cicero made the rhetorical overture first, circa 43 BC. I am glad this has not been made known to Francis Ford Coppola, whose recent film Megalopolis finds the denouement of the Roman republic a perfect allegory for the fate of modern America. The weight of this metaphor may have driven him over the precipice.
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