Jesse Cox: Empire is not compatible with our Constitution

(Wilfredo Lee | AP File Photo) In this Aug. 16, 2019 photo a citizen candidate holds an American flag and the words to The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami field office in Miami. Regarding our current crisis in U.S. democracy, let’s step back and take a global view.

We set the pace in many or most things political and moral, even when we get it wrong. As motivated students of Western Empire, Japanese nobility and intelligentsia of the late 1800s closely followed art movements of Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles, imported architects, philosophers and professors from the West and studied best practices for…