  Nucleons and electrons were once considered elementary particles, a role
nowadays taken by quarks and leptons. Here, mainly at the group theoretical
level, we examine the unorthodox idea that nucleons and electrons share the
same level of compositeness after all. We do it by first trading color
$SU(3)_C$ for color/leptocolor $SU(3)_C\times SU(3)_{\ell C}$ confining gauge
symmetry. Standard model leptons, equipped with inherited Yukawa couplings,
make then their appearance at the intermediate (gauge protected) $SU(3)_C\times
SU(3)_L\times SU(3)_R$ trinification stage as three pre-lepton composites. The
addition of an exclusively prescribed (on anomaly free and Pauli exclusion
grounds) spontaneously broken $SU(3)_F$ horizontal link to the unification
chain, in the spirit of "One three to rule them all", strikingly preserves the
anti-symmetric structure of the single family fermionic wave function. The
threefold quark/lepton (spectators + composites) flavor chiral representation
is then necessarily supplemented by a trinification singlet composite Majorana
neutrino. The scheme serendipitously predicts a novel anomaly free lepto/dark
portal.
