"According to Suetonius in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121 AD), [Mad Emperor] Caligula planned to make Incitatus a consul [effectively half-president]." --quoted from Wikipedia. Trump is totally pulling from the lowlights of the Lives of the Caesars. ICE is basically a proscription, in the mode of the tyrant Sulla and later the Emperor Domitian. (Trump is really hitting hard on the Caligula/Nero/Domitian axis).
The historian Tacitus' description of Domitian is pretty Trumpian too: he talks of the Senators fearing the expression on the Emperor's big red face.
The piece that you aren't getting from these articles is that they are people whose lives are being ripped apart, along with those of their families, coworkers, and communities. And it's not great for the rest of us, either.
