The significance of the November 5th US election goes far beyond a battle for the White House. What was at stake in the election was whether a destructive, elitist cabal would remain in power to complete their hideous satanic agenda to “build a globalized world” on the ruins of the world as we know it, or whether this group of people would stop the pernicious her work. The candidate who has undertaken this historic and monumental undertaking is Donald Trump.
It goes without saying that Trump not only cannot be a member of or affiliated with this cabal to successfully accomplish this mission, but that he must be fundamentally and dramatically opposed to everything that this cabal stands for and stands for. This is where the important historical concept of homo novus enters our thinking. Homo novus was the term in ancient Rome for a man who was the first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate or, more specifically, to be elected as a high priest. The most famous homo novus in Roman history was Marcus Tullius Cicero, who was elected pontiff, the country’s highest office, in 63 BC. Donald Trump who was elected as the 47th president, because of his competition like Cicero with the ruling class and elites of the specific historical contexts, can also be characterized as homo novus.
These elites today have names like deep state, Bilderberg and Illuminati, represented in the US by household names like Pelosi, Obama, Bush, Cheney and Clinton. The elites in Cicero’s time were called optimates and included family names such as Cornelii, Manlii, Fabii, Aemilii, Claudii and Valerii. Both Trump and Cicero sought to break the power of these elites and “give power back to the people,” which was and is the cradle of politics and human life. The parallels between the two policies are truly amazing. Initially, their struggle, perhaps “war” is a more appropriate word, against the elites in both cases led to assassination attempts, in Cicero’s case fatally in 43 BC. Looking more closely at the specifics of their respective political activities and achievements as homines novi, what immediately stands out is their fight against “elitist organized crime” in its various forms. The “bridge” that connects the two states in this regard and spans more than two millennia of history is the island of Sicily.
At an early stage in his political career, Cicero, aged just 30, was made deacon (financial supervisor) and sent to Sicily. Sicily at that time was ruled by Gaius Verres, who was notorious for his greed and cruelty. A reign of terror reigned over the peasantry of Sicily, which at that time was the “breadbasket” of Rome, while the plundering of private estates was so savage and inhuman that desperate citizens knocked at the door of the young, ambitious dean for protection and help . Cicero decided to prosecute Verres in one of the most famous criminal trials in history, which cemented Cicero’s reputation as the greatest orator of all time. At the same time, this heroic and very risky prosecution of a prominent member of the elites of the time (Verres was a favorite and protégé of Leucius Cornelius Sulla) laid the foundation for Cicero’s popularity with the people and his subsequent rise to power.
In his first speech, “In Verrem,” Cicero compared the devastation of Sicily by the Greek and Carthaginian armies in the Sicilian and Carthaginian wars to Verres’ reign of terror and concluded that the people “suffered much more” under the last one. Obviously, we don’t need foreign armies to destroy this island, Cicero joked. Now compare that to the way Trump aims to “drain the swamp” in Washington by attacking and promising to chase out the elites who are looting the US today, like Nancy Pelosi, who “Verres-type” made millions of dollars selling Visa stock through insider trading, or the “Biden crime family” who got rich through shady business dealings with Kiev oligarchs. We remind you that Trump in his younger years as a New York real estate developer and tycoon already fought the mafia rooted in the same island where Cicero stopped the greedy Verres as governor of Sicily.
As prince, in his final position of power, Cicero also faced a formidable elite enemy, Sergius Catiline the White, who wanted to overthrow the republic with the help of foreign powers from Gaul. In a heroic and unprecedented combination of rhetorical, political, investigative and police skills, Cicero managed to uncover the entire conspiracy and name the five main conspirators, who were then executed as enemies of the Roman state. Trump as the 45th President went through a similar ordeal when his elite enemies, including the FBI, plotted to bring him down with a plan eventually dubbed the “Russian hoax.” The exact parallel here is that forces from within conspire to bring down the executive by playing the foreign card.
The fate of homo novus in politics apparently hasn’t changed much in over 2,000 years. We can, in light of all this, better understand Trump’s recent claim that “enemies from within” are more dangerous than other countries. Exactly the same sentiment was expressed by Cicero when he pointed out in “De Officiis” that “much more dangerous than the enemy who knocks at the gates outside the walls or tries to scale them are the traitors within our city.”
Apparently Trump is not a new Cicero when it comes to oratory. But he could become as influential and successful a homo novus as Cicero and rightly be judged as an important US president who envisioned himself to confidently and boldly change the course of history.
