Donald Trump’s indictment makes one wonder if the members of the Democrat party have ever picked up a history book, walked by one in a library, or accidentally heard an episode of the History of Rome podcast.
Tiberius was as blue-blooded as you could imagine. A billionaire TV star, let’s say. Yet by birth he could run as Tribune of the Plebs (the huge mass of regular people). Which he did.
He didn’t get along at all with the snooty and “swampy” aristocratic Senate, and he was a constant burr under their saddle. He also did some illegal things–there were two Tribunes each term (meant to diversify power) and the other one was basically put in to be the Senate’s stooge and stymie Tiberius.
So Tiberius had a mob of Plebs kill him. Not at all nice. So then Tiberius could rule alone for a time. Immediately, “Big T” vetoed any legislation, no matter how small, that the Senate passed–until they would allow HIS valued projects to go forward. Legislation, as you would expect, ground to a halt.
Of course, this mightily torqued off the Senate. They hated Tiberius anyway. So their mob invaded a Tiberius rally, broke the legs off chairs, and clubbed him to death.
They were bound and determined to “get” Tiberius one way or another. And they simply didn’t give a crap what the law or basic human decency had to say about it.
Sound familiar? It should.
And 10 years later, the FAR more radical younger brother of Tiberius became Tribune of the Plebs…