Posted on 01/07/2021 7:56:43 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Donald Trump is the Tiberius Gracchus of our day. He is the guy who noticed that while the American Republic had swept all foreign enemies before it, the working class had suffered despite the great riches of empire. Donald Trump decided to run for public office despite his great family wealth, and to put forth his formidable political skills to benefit the American Working Joe. He failed, because the American political establishment buried their traditional political differences in the face of Trump's challenge, and in fact had him [well, we'll have to see if they let him live free, or jail him, or kill him].
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The Gracci brothers, Gaius and Tiberius Graccus, were murdered.
President Trump needs to learn from their fate. Once he leaves office he will be in constant danger. The Swamp will do everything in its power to destroy him and his family.
He needs to leave.
The Gracchi were dirtbags who started the decline of the Republic into an Empire.
Gracchi ping in relation to Trump.
His younger brother Gaius was more of a populist IMHO and a better comparison to Trump. He committed suicide when the Senate made political executions without trial an actual legal thing and it was obvious he was first on the list. Gaius was dead so thousands of his followers were rounded up instead and they were murdered.
And have no doubt, the power in DC would LOVE to do that with Trump supporters. Instead they will move to de-person us. Social media cancelled, internet sites gone, etc. Travel blocks to prevent assembly, etc.
I was thinking of Caesar. Although not an exact match one of the main concerns of the Senate was his popularity with the common people. And he was shivved by his stepson, Pence. I mean Brutus.
Rome was never the same after this incident.
And Pence would be wise to see what happened to Brutus who was one of the powerful people in Rome.
“He was a proto-socialist pining for redistribution of wealth. Not a great Trump comparison.”
He was advocating for the Roman yeomanry (small farmers). These had the burden of military service at their own expense, but got no benefit from their conquests, such as land grants from the conquests. And they were going broke and losing their farms from the cost of wars and the loss of their labor, being away from home, often for years.
While the senatorial class and the equites (the next lower rank of the elite) did get the benefit of lands and tax-farming franchises, revenue from loot, including slaves, etc.
Rome wasn’t exactly a capitalist state. It financed itself from the revenues from its constant wars, and this was the main source of wealth.
The Gracchi and Julius Caesar served a similar political faction, more or less, though the existence of the faction was not continuous.
More correctly, he advocated the dividing up of the ager publicus (i.e., the land owned by the state) into small holdings to be given to farmers.
At that time, the small farmers were the ones who went into the military, and if they did not come back from the campaign, their farm usually had to be sold (to a rich landowners, who then incorporated it into their holdings (latifundia)).
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