[SunkenCiv]

:’) I’m a little dim, what’s the connection with the Gracchii and Popularii?

[Little Bill]

See Momsen, “Historia Romanarum”. The Gracchi:(Popularii) Fat boy, Clinton, Osama, LBJ, FDR, Truman, and those with their hands out.

Optimates, in modern terms, the rest of us.