Madison Cawthorn's 'half-baked' analogy likening the Mar-a-Lago raid to Ancient Rome fails to convince historians, Newsweek Fact Check found out.
While some noticed potential parallels, most disagreed with his assessment.
To be clear "dictator" was an official office in the Roman Republic, and wasn't thought of in the way the word is interpreted today. "They were sacrosanct, so it was a huge taboo to harm them in any way. However, this did happen—most famously, the Gracchi brothers were killed in the process of trying to enact land reforms that would have taken economic power from the elite."
"The comparison is somewhat historically confused—Madison Cawthorn has conflated a few different historical episodes here.
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