The Roman Republic fell when its Ruling Elite could no longer make a rational case for its continued governance over the people of Rome, the “Populus Romanus”. The Champion of the Roman Ruling Elite ,in its decline, was Sulla; however, Sulla gave over his governance, to gay actors.   Plutarch wrote the following about Sulla.   "It was this laxity, as it seems, which produced in him [Sulla] a diseased propensity to amorous indulgence and an unrestrained voluptuousness, from which he did not refrain even in his old age, but continued his youthful love for Metrobius, an actor."   "However, even though he [Sulla] had such a wife at home, he consorted with actresses, harpists, and theatrical people, drinking with them on couches all day long. For these were the men who had most influence with him now: Roscius the comedian, Sorex the archmime, and Metrobius the impersonator of women, for whom, though past his prime, he continued up to the last to be passionately fond, and made...

One of the problems with the modern    mindset of 2021, is that it conflates prognostication with advocacy. They are not the same thing; one can predict without advocating that prediction. This Blogger has predicted a Second American Civil War; he does not advocate a Second American Civil War. A Second Civil War would be a disaster; only proving that Abraham Lincoln was sui generis. In a Second American Civil War, the best which could be expected would be another Cromwell, or more likely a Sulla; the worst would be the most probable, a general who sticks the heads of his defeated enemies on pikes, on live streaming television. Take that Paddy Chayefsky (see the film, NETWORK).   Proscriptions were invented by Sulla. He was    a very competent General; notorious for being the first General to hurl the Roman    Army against the Roman Republic. He spent his declining years surrounded by actors who were ancestors of the    cast of POSE or LA CAGE...