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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"To me, Donald Trump is sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum."
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David Jolly
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Lindsey Graham to @jonathanvswan: "To me, Donald Trump is sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum."
Lindsey Graham: Trump could make the GOP "stronger" or "destroy" it
Graham calls Trump "sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum."
axios.com
4:23 PM · Mar 7, 2021
David Jolly
@DavidJollyFL
Lindsey Graham to @jonathanvswan: "To me, Donald Trump is sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum."
Lindsey Graham: Trump could make the GOP "stronger" or "destroy" it
Graham calls Trump "sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum."
axios.com
4:23 PM · Mar 7, 2021
https://www.axios.com/lindsey-graham-trump-destroy-republican-party-613ce2af-8914-4764-9492-80a8424c628c.html
God, he's just a vile excuse for a human.
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"To me, Donald Trump is sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum." (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2021
OP
How about a combination of George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Lonesome Rhodes
Elwood P Dowd
Mar 2021
#15
paleotn
(17,912 posts)1. Of course he's a vile excuse for a human. He's a Republican in March of 2021.
All decency and sanity left that party. What's left are the dregs and nothing they do or say surprises me.
Blue Dawn
(892 posts)2. Is he saying this because....
....he thinks it is a good thing?
Wow.....
leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)4. You beat me to it!
I had the very same thought.
Blue Dawn
(892 posts)9. Hey, they say great minds....
....think alike!
I am in good company, leftieNanner!
leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)3. Helms, Reagan, and Barnum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Lindsey thinks that's a GOOD thing???
All three of them are absolutely awful. A rabid racist, a cruel idiot, and a con man.
Well. Actually, now that I think about it, he may be right.
Shermann
(7,413 posts)11. So he's a racist carnival barker with dementia nt
leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)12. You Nailed It!! nt
mucifer
(23,539 posts)5. he left out the reverend jim jones
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)7. Also adolf Hitler
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)6. To me he's like a cross of Idi Amin, Imelda Marcos and the Shamwow Guy
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)8. and Benito Mussolini.
leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)10. Some Day
I hope we find out what terrible secret has frightened Senator Graham so deeply. It must be truly vile. And I cannot imagine what his life must be like living in fear 24/7.
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)13. Kind of off the subject, but did you know that P.T. Barnum was a Unitarian?
It surprised me when I found out.
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)14. Lindsey Graham?
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)15. How about a combination of George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Lonesome Rhodes
with a much lower IQ than any of them?
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)16. Sounds damning about those 3 named, to me - all cons. What am I missing?!