[allmendream]

The “scumbag thugs” who murdered Caesar were Roman Senators who thought they were saving the Republic from the Tyrant who overthrew it.

Usually my sympathy is with those who seek to maintain a Republic than with those who wish to overthrow it with absolute one man rule.

[SunkenCiv]

The Senators were not elected — therefore there was no Roman Republic to overthrow. The “Roman Republic” was just a fascist oligarchy. Caesar was viewed as a threat to the corrupt senators’ financial interests, and that’s all that was going on.