• Hegar
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    43 days ago

    In roman elections, if the plebs didn’t vote in favor of a new law, sometimes the patrician official calling the vote would just make the assembly vote again until they got it right.

    Then as now, venal aristocrats like trump see elections as a rubber stamp for their divine right to rule, and see losing is an injustice to be corrected. Often violently.