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On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 16:27:36 -0500, Byker wrote:

"He's a total demagogue": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-CG0hUnJWw

Of course Trump is a demagogue in-the-making. That's what the electorate wants, though they won't say so in so many words.

As the war clouds of WWII began to appear on the horizon in the 1930s,
author Sinclair Lewis imagined a fictional future in which America too could all too easily fall to fascism. He wrote of a politician who rose to the presidency by promising Depression-era America great economic reform and a return to traditional patriotic values. He was a politician who vowed to
save the country from welfare fraud, sex, crime, and a liberal media (Yeah,
I know what you're thinking, but this WAS all in Lewis's book). "It Can't Happen Here" was written over eighty years ago and ends with the
president all but ending democracy in favor of an authoritarian regime of
his own. It was a meant to be a warning as to just how fragile American democracy can be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here

Now it has become the jumping-off point for a new book, "Can It Happen
Here?: Authoritarianism in America", a collection of essays from some of the nation's "leading" thinkers, theorists, and historians on exactly how democracy can crumble: http://tinyurl.com/y5964yhn

Naturally it's anti-Trump as hell: http://tinyurl.com/y4czssof. Now ask yourself why something like this wasn't published during the Reagan administration?

But you know what, loonie-lefties? It's going to happen anyway, no matter
how much you piss and moan and scream at the sky. Historically, whenever there's a major crisis, people want someone -- anyone -- who will bring
order to the chaos, be it a Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Franco, Mussolini, or
Saddam Hussein, and after the dictator is gone many years later, people will still think warmly of him and tell their grandkids how he "saved the country"...

Putting aside the anti-Trump side,

there are very few todayn that think warmly of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Franco, Mussolini, or Saddam Hussein and think they saved their country.

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On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 13:12:16 -0500, Byker wrote:

"SolomonW" wrote in message news:1e5rs7qhm7sd7.13y35zv9mrz2b.dlg@40tude.net...

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:02:11 -0500, Byker wrote:

"SolomonW" wrote in message
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there are very few todayn that think warmly of Hitler

See below

No argument there are some, in Germany today the National Democratic Party >> of Germany get generally less then 1% of the vote.

I think it all has to do with charisma and strong leadership. In the former Yugoslavia, Josip Tito still gets accolades, but in Romania, NO ONE seems to miss Nicolae Ceau|escu...

The test is in a 1,000 years.
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