Consider the following from Plato's Republic, Book 8, as Socrates describes the transition from democracy to tyranny:
"And it is clear that when a tyrant arises, the position of popular leader is the sole root from which he springs....Once he takes over a docile mob, he does not restrain himself...he banishes and kills and drops hints about the cancellation of debts and the redistribution of land.... He is the one, then, who stirs up faction against the rich."
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