Brutus was an honorable man. J. Caeasar began the consolidation of power in Rome and the destruction of the Roman Republic:He succeeded.
Brutus is my guy, not J. Caesar, Maximum Leader.
Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus and a bunch of other greedy murderers from a hereditary elitist oligarchy who screwed soldiers out of everything they owned, even to the point of putting serving soldiers’ families into slavery. Republican Rome was a hideous system; the Roman Empire became an actual republic, but with a permanent chief executive. This transformation into a more open society led to an inevitable decline, which meant that the Roman Empire, in various forms but in continuity, to last a mere fifteen more centuries. Its last remnant fell in to the Turks in 1453.