“We are in a late republican period. If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”
— Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R), quoted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, referring to the transformation of the classical Roman Republic to the Roman Empire.
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