01-09-2017, 02:21 PM
Quote:I won't claim to have known FDR, but nonetheless, no way in Hell is Trump another FDR.
Nope, he's not FDR, Hitler, Mussolini, Berlusconi, or Idi Amin. He's definitely Donald Trump. That whooshing sound you heard on your way in was the point flying right over your head.
Quote:Sure, FDR was rich and horny.
Traits he shared with our Fearless Leader.
Quote:But he was not new rich
Irrelevant.
Quote:and not a complete Ugly American like Trump.
Addressed.
Quote:His persona was about as far from Trump as one can imagine. He fit in more with British upper class people.
Which is to say he probably wouldn't be electable today.
Quote:It was a match made in heaven given the times.
I dunno, I think DT is a pretty good fit for today's America. Not how we pretend, but how it actually is.