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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 04:49 PM Mar 2020

I figured out what Trump's junto is most like in history: China's Late Qing Dynasty

Incompetent, corrupt, out of touch, harmful to the populace, pushed around by outside forces, centered in an
architectural masterpiece- and in the very end, crumbling to ruins in plain sight of all.

(yeah, I'm a history nerd...)

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I figured out what Trump's junto is most like in history: China's Late Qing Dynasty (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Mar 2020 OP
Similar to the Trump's Fu Qing Dynasty ? OnDoutside Mar 2020 #1
LOL, love it! friendly_iconoclast Mar 2020 #2
The Newest Reality Mar 2020 #3
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