Nothing new under the sun
Posted 8.40am UK time
Events in the U.S. last night did not signify the end of the Roman Empire — just the latest spasm of fury in a nation host to many zealots of various stripes.
In 1932, for example, amid the desperation of the Great Depression, the Bonus Army — forty-three thousand men, including twenty thousand WWI veterans — marched on the Capitol. Outside the Congress, they were broken up by a cavalry charge ordered by a certain Major George S. Patton.
There is nothing new under the sun.
