{"id":45495,"date":"2026-08-18T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45495"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:20:16","slug":"if-this-isnt-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/08\/18\/if-this-isnt-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"If This Isn&#8217;t The Collapse Of The Roman Empire &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it&#8217;s gotta be close.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Sunday night, a social media user posted a video of Trump at a party at his Bedminster club blasting \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d on his iPad for the crowd. National security scholar Tom Nichols responded: \u201cWe\u2019re losing a war to Iran, we\u2019re alienating our allies, we\u2019re emboldening our enemies, our stalwart service people are being subjected to deprivations&#8230;and this is what the Commander in Chief is doing.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/august-17-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Letters From An American<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Impeach, convict, hand him an ax, and send him to help former President Bush clear that old brush from his ranch. Then we can try renewing ourselves, rather than collapsing and disappearing as we seem to be doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it&#8217;s gotta be close. On Sunday night, a social media user posted a video of Trump at a party at his Bedminster club blasting \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d on his iPad for the crowd. National security scholar Tom Nichols responded: \u201cWe\u2019re losing a war to Iran, we\u2019re alienating our allies, we\u2019re emboldening \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/08\/18\/if-this-isnt-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45500,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions\/45500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}