The Reichstag is always burning: a commentary on The Flight 93 Election
102 min readDec 30, 2020
By: A Yeoman Farmer
The Flight 93 Election
By: Publius Decius Mus[i]
September 5, 2016
On 5 September 2016, a writer under the pseudonym of Publius Decius Mus, wrote a defence of Trump which was also an extended meditation on the American conservative movement. Although not aware of it, the author was engaging in the age old American practice of the jeremiad,[ii] the difference, though, was that it was a European jeremiad, not an…
