The land reform the Gracchus sought was to restore the prior order. It was the ruling class that lost the balance. They reacted with violence, killing their political opponents. and then afraid for their power (where have we seen that recently) they gave Opimius to power to do whatever he thought necessary to preserve the Senate. dictatorship in all but wording.

This is what is happening today. and what Sallust said about the end of the Roman republic is dead on today: "It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations, when one party desires to triumph over another by any and every means and to avenge itself on the vanquished with excessive cruelty."