"We spent centuries maps-in-hand, tracing the edges of our constitution, asking: Where do the boundaries lie? Cincinnatus drew them in the dirt; Caesar crossed them with an army. It took a modern heartbreak to finally ask the real question: And where do the boundaries lie? Because we aren't fighting over empires or grand ideals anymore. The sacred perimeter of our republic has collapsed, the boundary of the boundary has been inverted entirely within the ego of a single zero."