The Donald Trump of Ancient Greece

[egbertowillies]

Privileged and narcissistic, a man who considered truth to be subjective, who casually manipulated facts to suit his own ambitious ends, who believed that the world was divided into winners and losers, and was determined to win at any cost, no matter whom he trampled on: Alcibiades was a politician for our times. And since, as George Santayana famously remarked, ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’ we would do well not to forget him today.

https://egbertowillies.com/2018/07/07/the-donald-trump-of-ancient-greece/

[al bupp]

1. It's an apt comparison /nt