The only reason why ISIS and Alqaeda elements were able to do so much damage is because the US has been under globalist-imperialist control of the Deep State under Obama & Hillary. He basically meant the US should aid Russia and Assad defeat ISIS and restore order. Trump’s position on ISIS wasn’t a call for More Intervention but Less Intervention. Except for his belligerent stance on Iran(mainly because of support of ultra-Zionist donors like Sheldon Adelson and pressure from Neocons who still infest the GOP), Trump has been favoring nationalism as antidote to globalist imperialism. Also, even though Trump can be imperious in style and personality, he is anti-empire. The globalist message to the American Working Class has been, "Fuc* you, we will replace you with more brown people, and just overdose on opioids and die, you white-trash losers." Trump’s message is that the American Working Class must be protected and revived in pride and spirit.
It is the globalists who’ve been pushing ‘free trade’, outsourcing of American jobs, and importation of endless supplies of peon scab labor. First of all, unlike Crassus who exploited slave labor, Trump called for the revival of the American Working Class. These parallels are misguided and strained. Also, Ebert draws parallels between Crassus’s campaign on Parthians(that turned into tragedy) and Trump’s military ambitions in the Middle East. John David Ebert also compares Trump to Crassus whose wealth and reputation were built on exploiting slave labor and defeating Spartacus. In other words, Trump represents the rise of Caesarism. To Luke Ford’s question as to when John David Ebert knew Donald Trump would likely be the next president, the latter answers that his prediction was inspired by Oswald Spengler’s overview of the dissolution of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.