Are You Taking Inspiration From Plato?

Since the election of trump, all of us who teach plato have been younow noticing that there's just an uptic in intensity in the discussions you get students to have about the republic. Because he is so worried about many of the things that we now are worried about. He has a story to tell about how democracy can self destruct and give rise to tyranny. And people are reacting to that very intensely right now - not just professional philosophers, but magazine writers and ordinary students. So i think it would be nice if there was also some kind of relevance of whole dialogues.