@dicey No different from Stalin then, is what you're saying. A lot of dead communists and a strong man in charge?

Sulla came out on top in the Social War. I don't know what else to say. Reckless and absolute disregard for moral authority will, as a best case scenario, result in being squashed beneath the foot of a tyrant.

Worst case scenario looks more like what the Romans did with the Carthaginians when they didn't find a living human being younger than 17 in the city.