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From Under Trump's "Landslide": A Guide for the Perplexed
From Under Trump's "Landslide": A Guide for the Perplexed
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We the people in the United States and in the news media still pay attention to Trump as a personality, forgetting that he will not likely be involved in the day-to-day running of the government. That has never been his intention, and it is probably beyond his ability. After all, he is a performer, not an administrator.
Yet it's hard to drag our eyes away.
If there is any historical comparison to Trump, it is not Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini, though his name is often coupled with theirs, but P. T. Barnum, also a showman, businessman, 'author' and politician. One of Barnum's most famous aphorisms, "The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it," could easily apply to this later demagogue who actually claimed, several weeks before the 2016 election, that he would 'drain the swamp' of Washington, DC.
Humbug.
Yet it's hard to drag our eyes away.
If there is any historical comparison to Trump, it is not Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini, though his name is often coupled with theirs, but P. T. Barnum, also a showman, businessman, 'author' and politician. One of Barnum's most famous aphorisms, "The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it," could easily apply to this later demagogue who actually claimed, several weeks before the 2016 election, that he would 'drain the swamp' of Washington, DC.
Humbug.