Donald Trump, America's own Mussolini with double the vulgarity Date February 1, 2016 Q Only the former owner of The Telegraph, Conrad Black, has endorsed his friend The Donald, on the grounds he would discover maturity faced with the responsibility of leading the Free World. While this might be true, the risk is too great; that is why nearly 70 per cent of Republican voters who don't support Trump are telling pollsters they "possibly" or "probably" won't vote for him as president. Assuming Hillary Clinton isn't indicted by the FBI over her classified emails, and assuming that Bernie Sanders' campaign fizzles out, and assuming ex-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't mount a White House run of his own, Trump will not win a single state unless those 70 per cent of Republicans return to the GOP camp. http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-e...ith-double-the-vulgarity-20160131-gmieu5.html Clinton is a beatable candidate - distrusted, almost 70 years old, a boring speaker with a bad senatorial record and a worse one as secretary of state - yet the Republicans seem about to select the one person who makes her look statesmanlike and almost likeable. Republicans should rue the day Roosevelt ensured that popular primaries chose candidates rather than the old system of party bosses in smoke-filled rooms, who, if they had that power today would choose Marco Rubio or John Kasich or Jeb Bush, i.e. someone decent who moreover can win. Telegraph, London UQ
I think the Telegraph erred in equating Mussolini with Trump. It is a bad analogy. A much better one would be another Italian, Silvio Berlusconi, who was, and remains, a great embarrassment to many Italians. The memory of our Nation's chances taken with the bungling G. W. Bush would seem too fresh to allow Donald Trump any chance at the Presidency. But if a Berlusconi can get himself elected, I suppose the redoubtable Mr. Trump could as well.
You've brought this on yourselves by electing a radical leftist and then reelecting him. The United States, politically, is an under-damped oscillating system meaning it is going to lash back far in the opposite direction proportional to how badly the current regime fucks things up. Your man Obama has unleashed so much death, suffering and destruction upon the world that the inevitable backlash is going to be fierce and I would be surprised to see another leftist president for at least a generation. The Telegraph amazes me in its completely biased hatred of Trump and its willingness to worship Jeremy Corbyn while he is advocating to remove nuclear missles from British submarines, lobbying to give the Falklands to Argentina and refusing to kiss the hand of the Queen. Real fine gentleman there. When the UK learns to run its own country then they can preach to us about ours.
Which do you think is the better analogy to Mr. Trump, Mussolini or Berlusconi? Or would you perhaps think the best analogy to be P.T. Barnum or James Anthony Bailey?
All three have elements that Trump possesses. He has the wildly fluctuating fortunes of P.T Barnum, the bombast of Mussolini and the deep deep pockets of Berlusconi. I am not familiar with Bailey but I will read up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev Perhaps also a Gorbachev of the GOP! http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index...inton-foundation-250-000.297559/#post-4239207
before you can debate who should be president, you should first settle in your mind what a president should be. UK still hasn't figured out what happened in 1776 and are even debating banning a U.S. presidential candidate from setting foot on their inbred island. They can't even defend themselves without our help. They still believe what they see on American tv. I would never pay any attention to what a brit thinks about american politics or food.