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According to the Bible, David united the tribes of Israel, conquered Jerusalem and made it his capital, defeated the Philistines, brought the Ark to the city and built a centralized kingdom, and tradition attributes the Psalms to him and the line of the Messiah.
Political topics
King David leans further toward religious than 94% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where King David stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, King David sits practically at the catalog median.
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Government ruled by the Torah and halakha, with rabbinical courts, judges or kings under religious authority, Judaism as the state religion and rejection of assimilation, inspired by the biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
Current that mobilizes the people against political and cultural elites, combining nationalism, immigration restriction, traditional values, public religion, strong security, and anti-establishment economic pragmatism around personalist leaders.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist21%
An Italian philosopher, Evola was a traditionalist theorist of the radical right, defending hierarchy, spirituality, and the refusal of the modern world, becoming a reference of 20th-century reactionary and esoteric thought.
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A monarchy uniting the Hebrew tribes under Saul, David and Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel concentrated power in a king anointed by a prophet, with Jerusalem and the Temple as its religious center, the law of the Torah, tribal levies and expansion over its neighbors.
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