A Warning To The Deep State: Beware The Ides of March Julius Caesar was murdered by members of the Roman Senate on 15 MAR 44 BC (the Ides of March). Caesar was feared because they thought he would disrupt their financial arrangements, most of them were corrupt (read Cicero's orations against a very corrupt Roman politician, Cataline) which pretty much was the rule in the Roman Republic.    The Roman Senate had first declared Caesar a "dictator" in 49 BC, then again for the next two years. The Senate ultimately declared him "dictator perpetuo"  barely a month before his assassination.  Therefore the excuse that they feared Caesar usurping power for himself was not as convincing as they intended. They gave those positions to him.  You might say that the Senators were Rome's Deep State. They were a landed aristocracy who bequeathed their Senate seats almost as an inheritance. They were elected but voters could be easily bought.    They perceived that Caesar threatened that … they feared he would abolish the Senate. What was at stake was their pillaging of the provinces.  Caesar's murder brought about a bloody two year civil war. What does POTUS wish to avoid? So now we come to drop #2979. What starts on the 15th of March? Pray tell us Q.