cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/31921

Sound familiar?

Caesar's opponents feared him and decided to accuse him of a series of crimes. They intended to convict and promptly kill him. The Roman Republic had been decaying for several generations and the rule of law had increasingly given way to bribery, riots, murders, and other methods of getting results without regard for the traditional system which had made the Republic so astonishingly powerful and profitable.