By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - America will weather its current hysterias... But the tensions and furor are reminiscent of the last generations of the Roman Republic. In its last century, Romans began to adjudicate politics by obsequious partisan town criers (their version of our media), mass demonstrations, and freelance street gangs. Looters, arsonists, and demonstrators did pretty much as they pleased in the streets of Rome without fear of legal consequences... In our time, the media has now vanished—kaput, no more, ended.