Pliny and Democrats have a lot in common.
“For I had no doubt that, whatever the nature of their creed, stubbornness and inflexible obstinacy surely deserve to be punished....”
Indeed, except for the possibility that he was far more manly and too honest to be like the Democrats, that is.
Maybe instead of comparing him to the Cultural Marxism riddled Democrats, men and women and undecided lunatics incapable of sustaining a civilization and a nation who feel enlightened and justified in tearing them down, it would be better to compare him to the rabid secularists of the French Revolution: bad without being unmanly, radical without being insane, self destructive and destructive of their civilization without being set on their course like sheep driven over a mine field.