I'm admittedly not a Rome specialist but "the grain dole destroyed the Republic" is a new one for me https://twitter.com/DouglasCarswell/status/1243156638586019841 …
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...largely neutralizing the threat that the professional army posed for the state. But reading, for instance, Cicero (De RP, De Leg) is so bittersweet, because you can tell he just doesn't think institutionally like that.
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Neither did Sulla, really. But I have no sympathy for him.
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Right - and that would seem to me analogous to the other issues we're mentioning. Unwillingness even to consider what structural reform would look like means essential changes must be effected on an ad hoc basis by brutal warlords, until one wins thoroughly enough to really do it
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