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What would you say about the argument that that breakdown of compromise and trust was, and is, spurred by the expansion of full citizenship and voting rights, in both republics. Preventing more Italians from Roman citizenship seemed to be one of Sulla’s main talking points.

Have you read Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project? Lewis has basically chronicled the destruction of large swaths of the American bureaucracy. The parallels between Sulla and Trump are so striking, even down to the hair!




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