>> IMO the primary reason for why Rome fell was due to an inability to adequately perform regime succession without debilitating civil war. <<
Is this not sort of agreeing with the historian? Why was regime succession so difficult? (The ONLY thing American democracy has proved successful at it is regime succession; since the 1930s, not one major political move was accomplished through democratic means, as opposed to by judicial fiat or executive refusal to obey the law.)
Was I supposed to disagree with the historian?
I was just giving my opinion.