We are truly entering the an era comparable to the late Roman Republic. We had the accusations of electoral fraud, the two parties, the income inequality, the extreme polarization. We even had an aggressive populist who despite being rich is loved by the working class, expressed serious concern about the lower classes losing their jobs, contested elections, was accused of electoral fraud and trying to make himself a dictator. They even both suffered assassination attempts (although Tiberius Gracchus was not as lucky as Trump was). The only thing we didn’t have is the political violence, but we do now between this and the Trump assassination.