The Reichstag Fire

Some have pointed, stupidly, to Kristallnacht, but the Reichstag Fire is much closer.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/as-the-insurrection-narrative-crumbles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwyT3-ZpPIA
Joe Nierman: The Reichstag Fire

Marius

Trump is Marius, not Caesar

Tiberius Gracchus

https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/02/09/killing-the-republic-trump-as-tiberius-gracchus/

Thirty Tyrants

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants

Crossing the Rubicon

This one is a little confusing because while it is often used to refer to an impossible restoration of some sort by the military, it could also refer to any irreversible choice, such as the one made in the early hours of November fourth.

https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/12/31/you-can-only-cross-the-rubicon-in-one-direction/

Yeltsin

https://unherd.com/2021/02/what-america-can-learn-from-nineties-russia/

Brezhnev

https://spectator.us/topic/joe-biden-leonid-brezhnev-vibes/

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/joe-biden–the-new-brezhnev/

Even the Guardian got in on it at one point: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/06/biden-soviet-russia-status-quo-democratic-ussr

The Z Man on the Kremlinology: https://www.takimag.com/article/a-wilderness-of-lies/

Thermopylae

Thermopylae

The Early Bolshies

Revolver makes the inevitable comparison to the Red Terror.