[livius]

(Julius Caesar used to do the same sort of thing, fwiw.)

Populist dictators always use the mob...and they seem to take their plays out of the same book over the millennia.

[lentulusgracchus]

Populist dictators always use the mob...and they seem to take their plays out of the same book over the millennia.

Yes, from the mobile vulgus of the Romans to the Peronista descamisados ("shirtless ones"), from whose mob someone up here cleverly grafted Clintonista onto our stock of political conceits. I'll bet the tyrants of Samos and Syracuse played the same games.