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No, Caesar didn’t do the same thing.
Sure, you can make the argument that history repeats itself, and humanity has been here before, but that’s a bad example to use and unrelated to Trump. Trump and Caesar have very little in common, beyond very superficial comparisons.
If anything it’s the Roman Senate that were more akin to Trump’s behavior than Caesar was.
Comment by LeoSolaris at 27/01/2025 at 12:40 UTC
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The basic analogy stands. Regardless of the specific politics involved, Julius Caesar was an extremely popular figure who capitalized on public discontent to topple one of the earliest republics.
And one of the things you have to ask yourself when evaluating history is: how much of our opinions of dead people come from the propaganda of the victors? If Trump's neurotic bullshit was all that was recorded about the Democrats of today, future generations would look at them with the same opinion you're voicing about the Roman Senate.