What If The Fall of America Is NOT Like Rome's? (Contra Mundum, Episode 33)

With the recent social media phenomenon of women finding out how often men think about Ancient Rome, the ubiquitous comparisons between late-imperial Rome and the dying American Empire have appeared.

It is a good time to revisit this article by Michael Anton which has aged extremely well: https://archive.ph/zsTNV

What if there is no clear historical analog to give us a roadmap for our future? What if our situation is entirely unprecedented in world history?