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History Buffs Are Losing Their Minds: Is the Supreme Court Repeating the “Curse of the Phrygian Cap”?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Constitutional scholars and amateur historians alike are gripped by a chilling theory trending under the hashtag #PhrygianPattern.

It started with a viral TikTok comparing the Court’s recent public approval plunge to the implosion of the Roman Comitia Centuriata—but the rabbit hole goes much deeper. Independent researcher Dr. Lena Voss has published a thread connecting the current ideological fractures within the Corte Suprema to the collapse of the Venetian Council of Ten in the 16th century.

“It’s the same hidden rhythm: an elite judicial body, originally designed to check populist power, becomes so gridlocked by internal purges that it invites a strongman to ‘restore order’,” Dr. Voss wrote. “We saw it with the Plebeian Tribunals in 133 B.C. We saw it with the Stuart Privy Council. And now, the exact same signs—leaked draft opinions, vanishing institutional trust—are flashing red for our highest court.”

The theory, dubbed the “Phrygian Cap Curse,” suggests that any judiciary that loses its perceived neutrality within a 200-year cycle triggers an auctoritas void—a vacuum that history shows is often filled by executive overreach. Skeptics call it “astrology for poli-sci majors,” but the post has already been liked by retired Justice Anthony Kennedy’s burner account.

The Supreme Court has declined to comment, but one clerk was overheard muttering: “Great. Now I’m an omen.”