“The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.”
He did not write The Art of the New Deal. FDR is hardly one of Donald’s hero’s. That New Deal only began to work after Japan and Germany declared war on the USA. That was when the factories began to be built and the unemployed got jobs. Yes, WAR became the economic driver.
A scary thought today.
I think we have to try to avoid making easy historical comparisons. Nevertheless, history does give us some useful labels. Nazism is one. On the Third of March 1933 all it took was a single Enabling Act to make Hitler the Leader/Dictator of Germany. I believe that Trump would have loved that. Instead he has had to announce and impose many such Acts. But he has done it.
He needs one more, a Third Term Act. “the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.”
For now his political nuclear weapons are tariffs. And here is also his greatest risk. Tariffs will harm other countries but also harm those that voted for him, his MAGA army. Caesar was so confident walking into the Senate on the Ides of March. His bloodstained body had to be carried out.
Caesar’s mistake was crossing the Rubicon. Trump has crossed lots of Rubicons. Is there to be an Ides of March in Washington?
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