seeing the emergence of actual populism and demogoguery emerge on the scene via trump's low brow antics really makes me appreciate history more on a personal level when i read about people like clodius etc. can you imagine the seething that was going on in rome over clodius's bullshit > clodius is disgracing the senate > clodius is a threat to the republic > clodius was grabbing women by the puss at caesar's house > clodius isn't even a real pleb > clodius is an idiot > clodius threatened the senate lol we get so caught up in the personalities and weekly news cycle that we can't see the bigger picture sometimes. trump basically reintroduced republics to the lost art of low brow demogoguery it's so crazy to see irl.
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