Donald Trump: America's Berlusconi?

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(01-12-2017, 10:28 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: Yeah, cable news in general (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) is pretty terrible in general.  Of course, I really don't watch it because I don't own a television.  Reading became my pastime of choice at a young age, and that is how I prefer to receive information.  My only quibble now with reading the news is that it necessarily comes through the filter of the author's perceptions and biases, and I have simply lost trust in journalism as a profession.

Berlusconi is at least a decent comparison.  These incessant "Trump is Hitler, no, Trump is Mussolini... He's Hitlerini! memes going around are the worst sort of garbage.

I'm beginning to realize that Trump really has no clue what the hell he's doing and is basically in perpetual ego-stroking mode. Underneath him you have a GOP that, despite having complete control of the federal government, has no clue what it stands for and has no ideological unity. You have the far-right populists sucking Putin's dick fighting with the Religious Right fighting with the Neo-Cons fighting with the Reaganite Establishment fighting with the Tea Party Libertarians.