Micha Kat explains why Donald J. Trump is the ultimate and perfect homo novus, even eclipsing Cicero.
Today, the 5th of November 2024, we will see what is, according to all pundits from all creeds and denominations, the most important election in world history. In this small piece, I will elaborate on this statement and show that the importance of this election reaches much further than a ‘battle for the White House’. What is at play today is whether a ruinous, elitist cabal will remain in power to complete its hideous satanic agenda to ‘build a new world’ on top of the smouldering ruins of the world as we know it or if this group of people can be stopped. The candidate chosen for this historical and monumental endeavour is Donald J. Trump.
It goes without saying that Trump not only can’t be a member of or affiliated with this cabal to successfully complete this mission but that he needs to be fundamentally and dramatically opposed to everything this cabal aspires and stands for. This is where the important historical concept of the homo novus comes into play. 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 consul. The most famous homo novus in Roman history was Marcus Tullius Cicero, who was elected consul, the highest office in the land, in 63 BC. Donald Trump can be elected as ‘47’ today. Both politicians are not only homines novi on account of their pedigree but also, more importantly, on account of their antagonism to the ruling class and the elites of their specific timeframes.
These elites today go by names like deep staters, Bilderbergers, and Illuminati, represented by family names like Pelosi, Obama, Bush, Cheney and Clinton. The elites in Cicero’s time were called optimates and included family names like the Cornelii, the Manlii, the Fabii, the Aemilii, the Claudii, and the Valerii. Both Trump and Cicero tried to break the power of these elites and ‘give the republic back to the people’ that constituted their own very cradle. The parallels between the two statesmen are truly stunning. To begin with, their fight — maybe ‘war’ is more appropriate — against the elites in both cases led to assassination attempts, in the case of Cicero a fatal one in 43 BC. Looking more closely at the specifics of their respective political activities and accomplishments as homines novi, what immediately stands out is their fight against ‘organized elitist crime’ in its various forms. The ‘bridge’ that connects the two statesmen in this regard and spans more than two millennia of history is the isle of Sicily.
In an early stage of his political career, Cicero was made quaestor (financial supervisor) and sent to Sicily. He was just 30 years old. Sicily at that time was sucked dry by its governor Gaius Verres. His reign of terror — extortion of farmers in what was at the time the ‘breadbasket’ of the republic’ and plundering of temples and private premises — was so bad that desperate flocks came banging at the door of the young, ambitious quaestor. Cicero decided to prosecute Verres in what would become one of the most famous criminal trials in history and would cement Cicero’s reputation as the best orator of all time. At the same time, this heroic and very risky prosecution of a foremost member of the elites of the time (Verres was a favourite and protégé of Sulla) laid the foundation of Cicero’s popularity with the people and his subsequent rise to power.
In his first oration, ‘In Verrem’, Cicero compared the destruction of Sicily by the armies of Greece and Carthage in the Sicilian and Punic wars with the reign of terror of Verres and concluded that the people ‘suffered much more’ under the latter. Apparently, we don’t need foreign armies to destroy this island, quipped Cicero. Now compare this to the way Trump aims at ‘draining the swamp’ of Washington by attacking and promising to prosecute the plundering elites of today, like Nancy Pelosi, who ‘Verres-style’ reaped millions of dollars by selling Visa stock via insider trading or the ‘Biden crime family’ that enriched itself through various ‘pay to play’-style schemes. To drive the comparison even further home, Trump, in his younger years as a building entrepreneur and New York real estate mogul, already fought the mafia that has its roots on the same very island where Cicero stopped Verres in his treacherous tracks.
As a consul, in his ultimate position of power, Cicero again was confronted with a formidable elite enemy in the enigmatic figure of Lucius Sergius Catilina, who wanted to overthrow the republic with the help of foreign forces from Gaul. In a heroic and unprecedented combination of rhetorical, political, investigative and law-enforcing skills, Cicero succeeded in laying bare the whole conspiracy and naming the five main conspirators, who were subsequently executed as enemies of the Roman state. Trump as ‘45’ went through a comparable ordeal when his elite enemies plotted to bring him down in a scheme that came to be called the ‘Russia hoax’. The exact parallel here is that forces from within plot to bring down the executive by playing the foreign card.
The fate of the homo novus in politics apparently hasn’t changed much in more than 2,000 years. Can we, in light of all this, now understand better Trump’s recent claim that the ‘enemies from within’ are more dangerous than other countries? Exactly the same sentiment was expressed by Cicero when he pointed out in his De Officiis that ‘so much more dangerous than the enemy banging the gates outside the walls or trying to scale them are the traitors within our city’.
One is tempted to look for more examples of homines novi in history and see if they could become as influential and successful as Cicero and Trump. Maybe we will even see an exhaustive and scholarly study on the homo novus throughout history. For now, let us concentrate and focus on today’s election that rightfully can be called the most important in human history.
