Ingrassia: Donald Trump, Our Cincinnatus

Anyone who enters politics for no other reason than to obtain power should be the last one granted it, for these types throughout history always become the most dangerous. Dictators and despots, megalomaniacal kings and petty tyrants all have pursued political power out of nothing more than a Machiavellian desire to rule and conquer others, perhaps to satisfy some empty void within themselves but never out of a sense of service — or anything that makes them look beyond themselves and their own times.