Tribune
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He was a patrician, a military
tribune
, a powerful man; but above every power of that world to which he belonged was a madman whose will and malignity it was impossible to foresee.
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He used his military influence and personal wealth to stack the Senate in his favor, while retaining the powers of a
tribune
and the right to celebrate military triumphs.
Lucius could choose, at 17, to become a military
tribune
and command soldiers on the edge of the Empire.
Johnson is a
tribune
of the people who grew up with the privileges of the 1%; a child of immigrants who campaigned for closed borders; a Conservative who wants to upend the political order; an erudite man who mocks expertise; and a cosmopolitan who casually calls black people “piccaninnies.”
The Vichy state’s brand of authoritarian traditionalism lionized family and fatherland, with Pétain, a former military commander, serving as a kind of military king, exalted on the
tribune.
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