Name people who were anomalies for their generation

[JasonBlack]

(03-15-2022, 10:49 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-15-2022, 09:23 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(10-24-2018, 11:11 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Trump is amoral, pecuniary and uncultured: three negative attributes of a Reactive leader. He seems to have some Millennial (!) traits too, as his leadership style pretends to be grand and focuses on building (e.g. the wall on the US-Mexico border).

You can accuse Trump of a lot, but as a real estate developer for nearly half a century, "pretends to build" is not one of them. What he doesn't build are the kind of things Civics focus on, such as collective projects, institutional works, etc.

Trump lacks taste in all things.  His buildings are always hyper-gaudy and less that fully functional.  Add his seeming inability to select great projects (e.g. how many of his golf properties are underwater), and you have an inept Billionaire -- not a rarity in itself.

Businessmen make bad politicians, because they are dictators, and who wants one of those running the government?  Lee Iacocca made that point himself. On the other hand, with Trump, you get the worst of both worlds.

Plenty of people who build are tasteless and have power hungry tendencies. I was only asserting that his tendency to build was not fake in the slightest.