Tick, Tick, Tick … the Augustus Countdown Continues

Originally posted on The Weekly Sift:
If we can’t make our republican system of government work, eventually the people will clamor for a leader who can sweep it all away. Many of them already do. In the 2013 post “Countdown to Augustus” I laid out a long-term problem that I come back to every year or so: [R]epublics don’t work just by rules, the dos and…