It is, instead, the city-state of Rome in 110 BC, and the republic that has endured for more than 300 years has become fat, corrupt and inept, and is beginning to unravel faster than a 39-cent pair of socks. But it’s not Washington, D.C., 1990, where dug-in incumbents defy political unknowns with lean pocketbooks to unseat them. In at least one respect the parallel is discomfiting: a national political leadership in which great wealth is essential to achieve power.
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