What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[garbon]

Supreme Court rules Trump overstepped by imposing tariffs.

Now what?

Looks like other things he might be able to do but still good when his stacked court rules against him. Gives people some hope.

[Valmy]

The multiple rounds of civil war and revolving door of emperors probably didn't help, either.

Yet somehow Honorius died on the throne of natural causes.

[Valmy]

Supreme Court rules Trump overstepped by imposing tariffs.

Now what?

No idea. But glad the separation of powers still sort of exists, at least on paper.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

For reference, the NY Times estimates 27% of the current tariff burden was invalidated.  However, based on those numbers about 33% of US imports were tariffed prior to Trump's shenanigans.  I'm assuming most of the invalidations will revert to pre-Trump levels, so it's unclear to me what this does to the overall tariff picture.

[Zanza]

The importing companies will sue the US government and will get the money back, paid for by the same taxpayers that already paid the higher prices. Windfall profits!

[Sophie Scholl]

As the wise scholars known as the Wu-Tang Clan once said, "C.R.E.A.M.".

[PJL]

The Supreme Court is fine with fascism and the culture war stuff as long as the economy isn't adversely affected. Trump's tariff stuff threatened to destablise the economy unnecessarily and cause harm to actual GOP constituents. Hence why they struck down the tariffs.

[crazy canuck]

People here seem to be confusing the "fall of the Roman Republic" and the "fall of the Roman Empire."

The Republic fell, IMO, because the quaint political and economic organization of the Republic couldn't handle the consequences of having created an empire.

The causes of the fall of the Empire are, as has been noted, multiple and complex.

Good clarification

[Norgy]

About 400 years between the fall of the republic and sack of Rome.

Rome never really fell though.
Though the imperial authority in the west was usurped. The British and later Americans have tried to take on the imperial mantle. Successfully? Hardly.

Rome died on its own.
It did not need a future America, and honestly, just fuck yourselves. We Europeans will manage our own demise.