Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Ancient Rome’s Donald Trump (Philip Freeman, Project-Syndicate)

Populism has a long and colorful history in American politics, from Huey Long on the left and George Wallace on the right, to – more recently – Ross Perot in 1992 and Donald Trump today. But the roots of populism stretch much further back in time – more than two millennia, to the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic.

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