Donald Trump’s meteoric rise from businessman to the most powerful man in the world and defender of the United States has been something. But to say it is unprecedented would be being a poor student to history.
Watching Trump in his first weeks of taking the oath of office and the steps he is taking to revitalize this country and protect it from foreign invaders, I am reminded of another man long ago in antiquity who I find very similar.
To understand what I mean you must first understand who Themistocles was and see if any of his story sounds somehow familiar in the present.
Themistocles was a Greek politician from Athens some five centuries before the birth of Christ. He was a new type of politician as he was not from the aristocracy class who had run all the political matters of Athens before, but a choice of the people reflecting the new democracy instilled in the city.
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