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Following in the Footsteps of the Gracchi
Most of the problems we face are ones we have seen before. Whether the ravages of free trade, the ravages of rule by bureaucracy, leftist terrorism aided and abetted by the regime and oligarchs, many of our present woes have antecedents in history.
Amongst the most spiritually important of those is the tale of the Gracchi. In the late Roman Republic, it was the Gracchi brothers who had the courage to stand up to the decayed and avaricious optimates as those elites stole the land out from under the feet of Rome’s yeoman legionnaires. It was they—particularly Tiberius Gracchus—who paired the time horizons of the old aristocracy with the real populist’s love of the commons. Yes, they failed, in the end.