Rome was a democratic republic.
The US system of government was modeled after the Roman republic. And we too are a democratic republic.
And anacyclosis applies to us too. It’s inescapable.
Democracy .NE. Democratic Republic.
I mean, short of Schumer, we don’t have a horse in the Senate, only a horse’s ass.
The other elements which are missing are sexual license and breakdown of marriage, inflation and dilution /degradation of currency, and a few we face that they didn’t, Commies, Muslims, and Big Tech.