[Pilsner]

“Strengthen the Presidency.”

Ah yes, the cry for a strong man to silence the babble and inconvenience that arises from self rule, and lead through strength of will.

It has been heard before.

[lentulusgracchus]

Notice his oversized eyes? That was a shtick he copied from Alexander the Great, who bulged his eyes to cater for the Greek hoi-polloi belief that people could recognize gods in their midst by their bulging, blazing eyeballs ..... their godhead trying to burst out.

It was a good racket for Al the Greaser, and Octavian borrowed it .... howbeit he was a milquetoast who got sick at the drop of a hat and completely unprepossessing except when he cranked up his "god-in-a-body" game.