Karl Marx predicted all this in his "18th Brumaire".
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Shorty for Chuby, The Trogg for Moriarity, the Mudpuddle for the Oddio. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.