The USA seems to have a president who wants to be our ruler, unencumbered by law or by a desire to reconcile justly the inevitable conflicts that arise among citizens of a free republic. One cannot but conclude that he thinks of himself as the modern model of the Roman emperors and the inheritor of the mantle of great Christian leaders, so let's look at the extremes of those ancient souls.

Just for fun, we asked Perplexity about the best and worst of the emperors who followed the end of the Roman Republic.

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