I actually don't think that's the case. There's really only one time where there has been anything close to that that didn't come form the political Left, and it was under Lincoln, and that was the religious zealots giving him free reign. And for his trouble, you'll recall he caught a bullet.
There's just not going to be a right-wing American Caesar, or even an American Thermodorian Reaction.
What we're seeing on the political right is American Liberalism. As in, "conservativism" in America, means a return to it's Liberal Revolutionary roots, and our enemies are the Leftists explicitly. Where, in the American Revolution, there were the people who followed Rouseau, and diefied the Founding Fathers, those proto-Leftists (like Hamilton) are the the political right's enemies.
What we have here is a coalition of people on the right who are replicating the anti-Federalists versus the Federalists (and their party specifically). Even within Trump and DeSantis, the political right is not unified around a Caesar, and we are not prepared to tolerate one, because any would violate someone's principles and break the coalition. Instead, we rally around our opposition to the Left, and are prepared to evoke our own paths, that we agree to separately take in our own territories.
The Left is prepared to follow anyone strong into battle, and they have no one.
The Right is prepared to follow each faction separately: the Libertarians with Paul, the MAGA chuds with Greene, the Catholics with Cruz, the militarists with Crenshaw, but none are prepared to tolerate any one as Sovereign Supreme. Even Trump is not actually that man. He was a compromise between the factions who managed to fight, and not necessarily annoy all of us at the same time.
In the end, the real threat of an American Ceasar would come from the Left, who might even bring the right-wing racialists and protectionists on their side. But that would require a kind of Leftist Nationalist. Like, a fucking Tito. And while that could happen, the Left is too entrenched in it's own incompetence to do that.
I actually don't think that's the case. There's really only one time where there has been anything close to that that didn't come form the political Left, and it was under Lincoln, and that was the religious zealots giving him free reign. And for his trouble, you'll recall he caught a bullet.
There's just not going to be a right-wing American Caesar, or even an American Thermodorian Reaction.
What we're seeing on the political right is American Liberalism. As in, "conservativism" in America, means a return to it's Liberal Revolutionary roots, and our enemies are the Leftists explicitly. Where, in the American Revolution, there were the people who followed Rouseau, and diefied the Founding Fathers, those proto-Leftists (like Hamilton) are the the political right's enemies.
What we have here is a coalition of people on the right who are replicating the anti-Federalists versus the Federalists (and their party specifically). Even within Trump and DeSantis, the political right is not unified around a Caesar, and we are not prepared to tolerate one, because any would violate someone's principles and break the coalition. Instead, we rally around our opposition to the Left, and are prepared to evoke our own paths, that we agree to separately take in our own territories.
The Left is prepared to follow anyone strong into battle, and they have no one.
The Right is prepared to follow each faction separately: the Libertarians with Paul, the MAGA chuds with Greene, the Catholics with Cruz, the militarists with Crenshaw, but none are prepared to tolerate any one as Sovereign Supreme. Even Trump is not actually that man. He was a compromise between the factions who managed to fight, and not necessarily annoy all of us at the same time.
In the end, the real threat of an American Ceasar would come from the Left, who might even bring the right-wing racialists and protectionists on their side. But that would require a kind of Leftist Nationalist. Like, a fucking Tito. And while that could happen, the Left is too entrenched in it's own incompetence to do that.