I’ll venture a serious answer: history only repeats itself IF the reporting historians have used the same psychographics to describe key actors and movements across the ages.  

From both a Jewish and modern psychological perspective, Pharaoh encountered by Moses was and remains a template for what we call “dictator” or “malignant narcissist”.  I understand there’s a Scientology position coinciding with a Jewish metaphysics proposing that all the souls that ever were — all the types of people — are here all the time and through the ages.

 In essence, we’re upgrading the weapons but fighting old battles.  

Within the Jewish ethos, the Passover Haggadah with which I grew up noted that “in each generation, a little more freedom is won.”  That, of course, is a liberal and progressive statement directly out of the soul of Judaism.  No wonder so many autocratic personalities — dictators, generals, and kings, among others — have wanted to kill it and us across time.  Bringing the whole world down on their heads, their ranks grow always a little smaller and ours a little more inclusive, enlarged, and ennobled.