Donald J. Trump: First Among His Betters?

Not first among equals

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You may have heard the term “first among equals.” For instance, orthodox Catholicism for a time considered Peter and his successors (i.e, the popes) Primus inter pares, or first among equals.

And for a time, the Roman “consul” was viewed in the same way until the nonsense about the divinity of Caesar, who usually found a way to…