Yeah, it was rather nasty even as a Republic. Even when they weren’t in the midst of a civil war there were moments where you’d have literal gangs in the streets being used to delay or secure elections, slave revolts, issues over farmland distribution that would often lead to starvation. Conflict of the orders happened - 200 something year long fight for pleb representation and political mobility.
It really was an absolute circus at times, and it’s romanticized too much.
If we’re lucky.
The reality is that killing him doesn’t matter right now. He’d be martyred, and the next in the line of succession would continue with this madness.
The majority of people in this country need to take a stand together or else nothing really changes and most people that are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to depose the tyrant are aware of that.