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Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment
The Republicans never do any serious fighting in public, H. L. Mencken declared in 1932, just before the G.O.P.s Convention, where Herbert Hoover ran for the nomination, all but unopposed. Less than a month later, it took the Democrats four ballots and five days of sweaty deal-making before F.D.R. won his partys nomination, defeating the former New York Governor Al Smith with delegates thrown his way by the Texan John Garner. The Democrats, unlike the Republicans, always do their fighting in public, Mencken wrote. The history of the party is one long record of ambushes, treasons and kidnappings. So, too, is the history of much of American politics. But hardly anything in the history of either party compares to the present carnage in the G.O.P.
And then came Donald J. Trump. He leads the Republican Party the way the head of a rebel army holds a capital city. This isnt an ambush or an act of treason or a kidnapping. This is a siege. He plans to build walls; he promises to put his opponents in prison. He enjoys harems. He admires tyrants. He erects monuments to himself in major cities. He holds entertainments in Americas stadiums, where he toys with his political enemies, delighting his band of followers while terrorizing other citizens. Over the weekend, he insisted that he will neither retreat nor surrender.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/donald-trump-the-great-embarrassment
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Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment (Original Post)
Little Star
Oct 2016
OP
I keep thinking it can't be true that he has so many supporters. Then I remember,
Dark n Stormy Knight
Oct 2016
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Some say we should never compare anyone to Hitler who hasn't done all that
Dark n Stormy Knight
Oct 2016
#3
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)1. I keep thinking it can't be true that he has so many supporters. Then I remember,
Little Star
(17,055 posts)2. Ain't that a scary truth!
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)3. Some say we should never compare anyone to Hitler who hasn't done all that
Hitler did, but I disagree. Hitler was an dangerous man before he enacted his plans. Having such plans in the first place was the problem. If he'd been stopped by people who saw him for what he was, the world would be a better place.