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highplainsdem

(63,115 posts) Sat Jul 31, 2021, 01:10 PM Jul 2021

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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, authoritarianism expert, just retweeted Jan. 2016 warning about Trump [View all]

that compared him to Berlusconi and Putin.

Link to tweet

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-cult-of-per_b_8992650

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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, authoritarianism expert, just retweeted Jan. 2016 warning about Trump [View all] highplainsdem Jul 2021 OP

Get thee tot he greatest page malaise Jul 2021 #1

Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Jul 2021 #2

Many on here saw it coming dalton99a Jul 2021 #3

Offer up your babies keithbvadu2 Jul 2021 #5

Me! Cosmocat Jul 2021 #9

That just made me ill UpInArms Jul 2021 #4

Trump never wanted to lead or govern. He always wanted to rule. keithbvadu2 Jul 2021 #6

100% this pandr32 Jul 2021 #16

Great read. Thank you for posting. No one knew how this would end like Hillary. nt BlueLucy Jul 2021 #7

Her warning was drowned out by the 2 media side shows Budi Jul 2021 #20

+1 ffr Jul 2021 #28

Yeah, and like many other things she said not fooled Jul 2021 #21

"Here's the trick to cults of personality: the leader has to embody the people but Hortensis Jul 2021 #8

Hitler and Mussolini Cosmocat Jul 2021 #10

Agree with that for sure. But all 3 were also charming, charismatic, Hortensis Jul 2021 #13

Netflix has a series that may have bottled it lunatica Jul 2021 #22

Thanks, Lunatica. I just pulled it up. "Episode 1: Seize power." Hortensis Jul 2021 #32

Mostly agree Cosmocat Jul 2021 #31

Perhaps a difference in imagining what that would be? Hortensis Jul 2021 #33

I will give you that Cosmocat Jul 2021 #36

Indeed. riversedge Jul 2021 #11

The Pig wants to be America's Putin, nationalize a few industries.... Thomas Hurt Jul 2021 #12

I looked at my wife the night he won the nomination... IrishAfricanAmerican Jul 2021 #14

Charismatic? SergeStorms Jul 2021 #15

I, too, am left totally dumbfounded. Charisma? stopdiggin Jul 2021 #38

Cheeto Benito. roamer65 Jul 2021 #17

In the elections, he lost his multigraincracker Jul 2021 #18

Media NEVER mentioned that election night. Captain Zero Aug 2021 #40

Her book is worth finding and reading irisblue Jul 2021 #19

Rt TY, hpd! Cha Jul 2021 #23

K&R! SheltieLover Jul 2021 #24

and just like history Locrian Jul 2021 #25

I'm sure Trump considers being compared to Putin a complement TexasBushwhacker Jul 2021 #26

Nail, meet hammer. ffr Jul 2021 #27

facinating, especially the paradox... Takket Jul 2021 #29

Ruth Ben-Ghiat knows what she's talking about Poiuyt Jul 2021 #30

So On The Money colsohlibgal Jul 2021 #34

you're so right. the backlash to Obama stopdiggin Aug 2021 #39

Little Dicktraitor Donnie Blue Owl Jul 2021 #35

"I love the un-educated." "I alone can fix it." Kung Flu is a democratic hoax, blah, fucking blah Evolve Dammit Jul 2021 #37