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By his own doing... (Original Post)
madamesilverspurs
Aug 2019
OP
Hear, hear. Trump, I think, will be remembered as a America's brush with 3rd world despotism
sandensea
Aug 2019
#4
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)1. Let us hope and pray it is so.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)2. I promise you it will be. nt
Larrybanal
(227 posts)3. don't count on it
america is full of dumb people with very short term memories
RVN VET71
(2,689 posts)7. The pic says "good people" so that leaves all Trumpers out of the discussion
sandensea
(21,604 posts)4. Hear, hear. Trump, I think, will be remembered as a America's brush with 3rd world despotism
A relatively gentle reminder that, absent more democratic awareness from our fellow voters, it can happen here.
And we already had a brush with despotic rule during the Dubya regime - although not quite this clownish.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)5. If you're a Manhattanite, like I was for 15 years, this is the way you looked at him for decades!
Nothing new.
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)8. Outside of Manhattan there was plenty of coverage
of his sleaziness in the zines that featured the rich and famous. He was a scheming fake then and it was indeed common knowledge. Funny how he had to go to the Russians for money, huh?
Demovictory9
(32,423 posts)6. Exactly!!
moreland01
(736 posts)9. And for the rest of eternity . . .
in my house.
Skittles
(153,122 posts)10. really it should say for the rest of all time