Guest Editorial: To Your County, O America

AMERICA’S RUBICON.

On January 10, 49 B.C. Caesar and his army crossed the Rubicon River. By formally entering the Roman Empire he knowingly committed treason as it was against the law to cross the river with an army. Since that event, the phrase “Crossing the Rubicon” means reaching a point of no return. Through his actions, Caesar ignited a Civil War that signaled the end of the Roman Republic, and once again history would pivot around the fall of one of the world’s greatest empires.

When the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago they crossed their own Rubicon, as did all who knew of the raid, encouraged it,...