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Bucky

(54,314 posts)

7. He's a one-man Spanish Habsburgs

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2024, 06:08 PM

Jan 2024

Caligula, Attila, Mad Juana, Stalin...

The interesting thing about Trump is, he was able to rise to the top of a democracy. That alone makes him a fairly unique lunatic leader.

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The world has always had its Donald Trumps. [View all] Cyrano Jan 2024 OP

History is filled with failures C_U_L8R Jan 2024 #1

Yes. But their failures were usually accompanied by enormous death tolls. Cyrano Jan 2024 #2

At least none of his kind have ever met a happy end. C_U_L8R Jan 2024 #3

Yes, but the problem is 10's of millions of times larger than Trump Model35mech Jan 2024 #4

Gotta' disagree. Cyrano Jan 2024 #5

they get to ignore politics because God's doing the choosing among the geniuses Model35mech Jan 2024 #6

He's a one-man Spanish Habsburgs Bucky Jan 2024 #7

22 Years, Congratulations! question everything Jan 2024 #8