Populism in America is cyclical. President Andrew Jackson fought banks; politician William Jennings Bryan fought barons; Louisiana Gov. and then Sen. Huey Long fought inequality; Trump fights systems of every stripe. His crusade is part grievance and part gospel, speaking to a republic that distrusts its own elite institutions and their caretakers. Trump excels at stretching politics into follow-through performance. After all, who else would dare prepend his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the U.S. Institute of Peace in real time.
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Trump’s evangelical supporters remind us that the great men of old were seldom polished and never perfect. Moses killed, yet led his people to freedom. David sinned, yet ruled with vision. Paul persecuted, yet became the greatest apostle. Scripture teaches that imperfection often precedes purpose, and greatness is rarely graceful. The Christian faithful rely on these proverbial lessons when explaining their loyal and unapologetic allegiance to such a coarse Christian. Unlike Elijah, it will be impossible to take up his mantle.
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Well he IS at olympic level in mental gymnastics.
He’s not wrong that people mistrust institutions and their caretakers. Shame the coin landed on fascist populism this time.
That is not a real person.
I sincerely wish you were right. But after living in a deep red state for a decade, I can tell you her might very well be real.
People who call themselves Christians literally worship this dude. This monument to spite and hate! “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.” And he still got a solid third of the country to vote for him.
I meant the author. “Adonis Hoffman” sounds like something Homer Simpson would come up with.
It’s so strange I’m only getting this notification a day later.
I’ll leave that up to admins.
Trump’s like if fat bastard was born rich, raped kids and became president
You forgot about his many failures along the way. Do you know how many kids slipped through his tiny fingers?
Into Lake Michigan?
adonis hoffman is definitely a real person that exists and not ai slop
I will say that this reads like a real Bush Era classico sychophant. You really get the sense his tongue is up in there. It’s cringe, but it’s not phoned in.
Why give this garbage the traction it doesn’t deserve?
He’s talented at being the most worthless shitstain to ever walk the earth
Peter was the greatest apostle you dipshit, Jesus said so in the Bible.
Essentially everything said on Fux News is an opinion carefully designed to cause outrage in those with atrophied critical thinking skills
Great things. Terrible, yes. But great.
If being a conman was a sport… Donald Trump would win.
Honesty I really doubt it
How many other conmen became president and convinced rural America he was their Savior?
“Pam, you’ve got… you’ve got some shit on your nose.”
More like on the back of her tongue
You don’t have to like Trump to recognize that he’s a unique leader who won’t be replaced any time soon, if ever.
Wish that were true. But wealthy sex pests with outsized political influence are hitting record levels
I mean he is a generational talent at scamming people. Even more than that, I’d say he’s the most successful grifter of all time. Who else in all of history even compares to the level Trump has scammed the US?
John Blunt? Points for being a sword-maker named blunt that founded a joint stock company. But he just scammed the upper class in the UK. Trump has so much more thoroughly scammed the US, and even many non-Americans around the world.
Fuck’s sake, he picks Andrew fucking Jackson as the first example? President "I’ve wanted to commit genocide since the War of 1812”? President “fighting the banks set up van Buren for a massive economic crisis”?
My username might give it away, I love studying the worst presidents in US history because they’re way more interesting than someone who was just kind of there and never got any scandals named for them. But damn, I really didn’t want to live through one of them
We’ve had a lot of them. I’m not sure how you could make it to 40 without enduring a particularly foul one.
I do think a lot of the 19th century presidents get a pass simply because they were nearly universally awful. Like, how do you rank Cleveland against Johnson or Tyler or Buchanan when it’s just a race to the bottom?
Nixon was an absolute monster as a human being, but he was at least reasonably competent and politically savvy. Trump’s much more in line with that earlier era of presidents - the most popular klansman or charismatic stooge of industry, but with no redeeming virtues as an actual bureaucrat.
He wasn’t a good president, but I think Nixon was good at being president, and if he had the modern propaganda shield that Trump does, I’d be terrified of what he could have accomplished. All of Trump’s sycophants combined don’t hold a candle to what Kissinger was able to do under Nixon.
I’ve only been alive for five US presidents, and too young/too propagandized to really understand what was going on until the end of the Obama administration. But it really is the same shit over and over again, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
