After reading the turgid rationales of the profiteers of human misery on this thread it's not hard to understand the bloodthirstiness of the Roman mobs during the Social Wars.
The betrayal of the sacrifices made by one's ancestors to produce a just polity angers the population as nothing else can. The obvious operation of the res publica to the private advantage of the 'establishment' is odious to the general public.
Once they see it that way. And they will.
Headsonpikes' fearless prediction: The obscure Constitutional reference to 'bills of attainder' will no longer be obscure when such bills are passed to exact revenge on the socialist statists who have corrupted America and her institutions.