Trump: The Julius Caesar Who Survived the Ides of March

Change—especially when it arrives in dramatic, convulsive waves—can feel profoundly disorienting. But what we are witnessing is not just a shift in world order; it is history happening in real-time.

For over three decades, the world has operated under a fragile unipolarity—a system dominated by a single, uncontested hegemon: the United States. That illusion is now being shattered, piece by piece.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union (1990), six events have punctuated the slow unraveling of Pax Americana:

1. 9/11 – The first great rupture, exposing U.S. vulnerabilities.

2. The 2007–08 Financial Crisis – A near-collapse of Western capitalism.

3. Brexit & Trump’s First Presidency (2016) – The first real fractures within the Western bloc.

4. COVID-19 – A global system brought to its knees.

5. The Russia-Ukraine War – A challenge to NATO’s authority.

6. Trump’s Second Presidency & Russia-Ukraine Peace (2025?) – The final unraveling of the old world order.

If the 20th century was about the cementing of American Empire, the 21st century is proving to be about its fragmentation—a division not unlike Charlemagne’s Europe, split among competing powers and rising factions.

Trump: From Empire to Kingdom

What we are witnessing now is not merely Trump’s return. He has already shattered the Empire—now he is laying the groundwork for something new: a Kingdom.

Unlike past presidents, whose aim was to fortify the American-led world order, Trump’s instinct is to dismantle it. Not out of chaos or ideological destruction, but because it is easier to take over a Kingdom than an Empire.

Empires require constant maintenance, overseas wars, and intricate alliances—whereas a Kingdom can be ruled through patronage, spectacle, and controlled populism.

His approach is simple: defenestrate grandiose American ambitions. If the U.S. is to survive, it must shed its imperial pretensions.

Every U.S. leader before him—Obama, Bush, Clinton—was pre-Julius, men working within an established structure. Even their greatest scandals, wars, and betrayals were contained within the imperial script.

But Trump? He is post-Ides. He survived his political assassination attempt, was exiled, and has returned—without naming an Augustus to carry his legacy forward.

(Zuckerberg, bien sûr, cosplays as Augustus.)

The strategy is clear: shrink the global sprawl, install the Young Turks, cut the dead weight, and rule the core territories with absolute control. This is not just an electoral game—this is the restructuring of power itself.

The West Is No Longer Uniformly White

The deeper reality beneath this political transformation is demographic.

For centuries, Western democracies functioned under an unspoken racial contract: democracy for the majority-white population (since the Great Revolutions of 1848), and imperial power exercised over everyone else.

But as Western nations grow increasingly multi-ethnic, their commitment to democracy is eroding.

The aging white population, realizing that democracy no longer guarantees their rule, is willing to embrace older, whiter, autocratic leaders.

Trump understands this. And so, in true Caesarean fashion, he is poised to feed them bread and circuses.

This is not just a political shift—it is a civilizational correction.

The Trump Plan: A Long Game

Trump isn’t just consolidating power—he’s restructuring the system itself. This is not a short-term presidency, but an aspirational autocracy that doesn’t require the crushing of freedoms—it requires Trump and his movement to be so popular that they can easily carry 50–55% of the vote.

That’s why Trump is implicitly aligning with Putin and Xi against the EU, Canada, and the UK. The more authoritarian countries succeed, the less democratic the world becomes, giving him a clear runway for a third term.

And if any president can pull off a third term, it’s Trump.

The Trump elite—Vance, Musk, Gabbard, RFK, Kash Patel, and the Trumplings—are not the decadent, self-destructive aristocracy of prior Republican circles. They are lean, disciplined, and intensely focused.

(Usha Vance, an Ivy Leaguer, was the only non-white person on that platform—yet Trump, incidentally a strict teetotaler, is the one the media calls a fascist.)

The Ukraine Carve-Up Is Inevitable

The division of Ukraine along the Dnipro is a foregone conclusion.

Trump needs Putin to win, and in return, Trump gets teh rare earth of

The answer of course is Trump; the trimming of the bureacracy. the careful populism, the wedge isseus (the trans issue is possibly an 80-20% rather than the 50-50 Roe vs Wade).

this is a long term plan and aspiration and autocracy doesn't mean freedoms being impinged. it means Trump and his crew making htemselves so popular that they easily carry 50-55% of teh vote. that's why Trump is also implicity siding with Putin and Xi against the EU, Canada and the UK. the world being less democratic means the critical third term can set aside. it also is obvious Trump is the only President in the cabal who can carry a third term. this isn't a decade elite; Vance, Musk, Gabbard, RFK, Kash, the Trump family (Trumplings) are all very focused adn not decaudent (Usha is an Ivy Leaguer and was the only non-white person standing on that platform while Trump of course is a teetollar)

The division of Ukraine along the Dnipro is a foregone eventuality; Trump needs Putin to win and his prize is Western Ukraine (Galicia that was Polish-Austrian influenced). the more countries taht become authoritarian inflected and the more successful the authoritarian countries become it also gives a great excuse to a cowering usa.Western Ukraine—Galicia, a region historically deeply influenced by Poland and Austria. The weaker Ukraine becomes, the less threatening NATO appears. The more countries that drift toward authoritarianism, the easier it is for Trump to set aside “election constraints” in America.

The weakening of NATO, the strategic erosion of European unity, and a shifting world order mean Trump doesn’t need military conquest—he needs strategic patience.

Trump’s Acceleration of History

What Trump is doing is condensing the great strands of history—what might otherwise take a century—into weeks, ensuring that as the coming shockwaves hit, he already has power consolidated.

This is not just a power grab.

This is an observation of systemic change.

Trump’s most radical shift isn’t just personal ambition—it’s his understanding of time.

Speed Is His Greatest Weapon

• Most autocrats centralize power over decades (Putin, Xi, Erdogan).

• Trump accelerates these shifts in months.

• He overloads media cycles, legal battles, policy fights, and institutional resistance so that by the time the opposition reacts, he has already moved forward.

His return to power wasn’t just an election—it was a reengineering of U.S. political reality.

And if Trump truly won 40% of the Black vote, the racial and cultural polarization of future elections might make a four-term Trump not just possible—but inevitable.

The Endgame: A United States Reshaped

Imagine Trump dying in office at 90, a four-term president who outlasted and outmaneuvered the American deep state, reshaping the country not through force, but through sheer strategic endurance.

Imagine a world where Western democracy is a fading ideal, overtaken by a rising bloc of nationalist strongmen, and Trump stands as the most cunning among them.

The Republic is dead.

Now, the question is:

Who will wear the crown then?

The answer of course is Trump; the trimming of the bureacracy. the careful populism, the wedge isseus (the trans issue is possibly an 80-20% rather than the 50-50 Roe vs Wade).

this is a long term plan and aspiration and autocracy doesn't mean freedoms being impinged. it means Trump and his crew making htemselves so popular that they easily carry 50-55% of teh vote. that's why Trump is also implicity siding with Putin and Xi against the EU, Canada and the UK. the world being less democratic means the critical third term can set aside. it also is obvious Trump is the only President in the cabal who can carry a third term. this isn't a decade elite; Vance, Musk, Gabbard, RFK, Kash, the Trump family (Trumplings) are all very focused adn not decaudent (Usha is an Ivy Leaguer and was the only non-white person standing on that platform while Trump of course is a teetollar)

The division of Ukraine along the Dnipro is a foregone eventuality; Trump needs Putin to win and his prize is Western Ukraine (Galicia that was Polish-Austrian influenced). the more countries taht become authoritarian inflected and the more successful the authoritarian countries become it also gives a great excuse to a cowering usa.