Installing Sleipnir's furnace

Around 100 B.C. Glaucia spent much of the year before the elections mobilizing angry crowds to back laws benefiting the rich and punishing his rivals.  The Romans had popular vote to elect senators but the final decision was made by winning a majority of the voting Centuria (ancient Rome's version of an Electoral College).   There was a ceremonial aspect to this vote with each ballot being called out separately until one of the candidates received a majority.  When it became obvious during the vote call that Glaucia would lose, he and his supporters rioted, stopping the rest of the vote, and causing the Centuria and Senate to flee in fear of their lives.   The historian Appian wrote that "neither laws nor any sense of shame" remained among the rioters.  The mob took over Capitoline Hill.   Glaucia's associate Counsel Gaius Marius was chosen by the Senate to put down the insurrection.  Marius had turned a blind eye to Glaucia's abuses of the law over the past year.  Now Marius needed to decide: side w/ his friend or defend the Republic.  Marius's decision was to stand for his country and put down Glaucia's rebellion.  This snippet of history comes to mind whenever the question of investigating the January 6th Capitol riot is mentioned in the news.  Why wouldn't the Senate and House want a full investigation into what happened?  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.