For once, thanks to Coriolanus’s complete lack of restraint, everything is out in the open. The more moderate senators had been willing to concede just barely enough to ward off a major public health emergency and massive social protest. Although they contrived to constrain the popular vote, they allowed at least a semblance of representation. But for Coriolanus, who cannot abide the hypocrisy and temporizing of his own class, that “just barely enough” is far too much.
