The cycle only ends with your conquest, barbarians!

Oh, I didn’t understand! In that case, the answer is “Kind of” lmao.

Populares sometimes championed the rights of Latins and provincials, but they could appeal to nativist bigotry as well. One might regard the optimates as more racist, but more incidentally than fundamentally so. Augustus appealing to nativism, thus, had some cross-partisan appeal.

Everyone gets a little racism! As a treat!