Publius Decius Mus
In the 2016 United States Presidential election, Michael Anton wrote under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus to put forward a conservative intellectual defence of the positions of then candidate Donald Trump. His writings were aimed at Republicans who held that Trump was not politically conservative enough to represent the party. He wrote that a risk of self-sacrifice was necessary to save the nation, maintaining that progressives had brought it to the brink of destruction. He used the actions of the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 as an analogy.