Those guys nailed up Christ after all. And I saw a bit about how Christians didn't attack the empire directly, they just won the hearts of the people. It would make sense if we're in a rematch.
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It seems to me that this 'meme' of talking/thinking about Rome was an effort to draw attention to the parallels between the United States right now and the fall of the Roman Empire.
You'd think, but alas that's not it's purpose. Think of the perennial appearance of a scapegoat in times when social upheavals, or what historians refer to as " interesting times" are at a frequency in which the center cannot hold. That's the offgassing of this meme