re: #230 The Ghost of a Flea

Nah.

Trump’s riding a wave that started during Nixon.

Yeah, it’s a scam, but it’s not his magnum opus brilliant scam that deserves acknowledgement for it’s craft.

Much like how pretty much everything Hitler gets credit for he lucked into or someone else did the much…these people attain great power and do great damage not because they have any actual qualities that make them good at something, but are so empty that they appear to be everything to their audience.

It’s a quibble, but I’ll disagree. Both had/have charismatic personalities. They both could have been Fire and Brimstone preachers and done quite well. They both view(ed) the world as a hellhole in the present that only they could fix.

And it worked very well for both of them until Hitler had Barbarossa fall to pieces when his tanks had their tracks welded into the winter ice and Drumpf had his economic “miracle” die in a developing winter pandemic. Followed by Spring, and Summer, and Fall, and Winter again when he was absolutely incapable of accepting reality and taking action.

In that, he was just like Hitler after Stalingrad which gave the Russkies breathing room to ramp up production.

The Russian winter and the Global Pandemic were Black Swans which were fatal to Hitler and Drumpf because neither of them could accept what had happened and admit fault.