It is also clear that Trump embodies, in almost archetypical form, the demagogic downside of democracy. In the ancient world, for example, Thucydides warned about the vulnerability of the Athenian citizenry to the jingoistic rhetoric of Cleon. Cicero delivered a similar warning about the conspiratorial tactics of Catiline, which threatened the survival of the Roman Republic. Washington echoed the same message in his Farewell Address, lamenting the manipulation of popular opinion by the Republican opposition to the Jay Treaty and the intrusion of inflammatory domestic disputes into foreign
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