>>213766993
>Tiberius got bludgened to death for wanting to enforce existing land ownership laws, not even introducing any new ones.
>Trump gets portrayed as a diabolical revolutionist for merely attempting to enforce existing immigration laws
I'm starting to see a pattern here.
>>213756599
>implying the Republic wasn't a dysfunctional cesspool
While that is true, Augustus didn't make it any better, and he set Rome up for failure in the long run (the endemic leadership problems that plagued Rome for the rest of its existence began to emerge within a generation of his death).