So, too, Meletus first gets rid of uswho corrupt the young shoots, as he says, and then afterwards he will obviouslytake care of the older ones and become a source of great blessings for the city, asseems likely to happen to one who started out this way.
How do you accomplish this in modernity, when you can't "get rid" of the opposition? You chill their speech, you erase their language, you erase their history. This seems to be the playbook of the far right in American politics under Donald J. Trump.
Redefine and poison words like DEI and Critical Race Theory (CRT), marginalize and criminalize the people who don't fit in your world view.