I am finishing reading "The LIfe of George Washington" by John Marshall and am very struck by similarities between Washington and Trump, and the strange correspondence between early US politics and the present day, with the same basic actors (constitutional federalists and francophile "republicans"). When Washington was in office and maintained a scrupulous neutrality in the contest between Great Britain and France, he was denounced and calumnied by the faction in the US that was enamored of the new French Republic and its out of control government. (It was also the faction that was agreeable to spending money, but not to obtaining revenue.)
You also see a stark similarity between modern America, Weimar Germany, and the rise of a powerfully magnetic political outsider, that promises to transform the Nation to something greater than ever before, are beloved by the people, are relentlessly lied about in media, and ultimately share the same enemy of international bankers.
Trump and this moment in history shares a LOT of similarities with multiple points in the past. Which should only go to show what an important point in time we’re living in.
I am finishing reading "The LIfe of George Washington" by John Marshall and am very struck by similarities between Washington and Trump, and the strange correspondence between early US politics and the present day, with the same basic actors (constitutional federalists and francophile "republicans"). When Washington was in office and maintained a scrupulous neutrality in the contest between Great Britain and France, he was denounced and calumnied by the faction in the US that was enamored of the new French Republic and its out of control government. (It was also the faction that was agreeable to spending money, but not to obtaining revenue.)
excellent history comparison: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Joel Barlow: Advice to the Privileged Orders (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=evans;idno=N22719.0001.001), Columbian Order of the Bavarian Illuminati (whether an actual organization or not), and Aaron Burr
You also see a stark similarity between modern America, Weimar Germany, and the rise of a powerfully magnetic political outsider, that promises to transform the Nation to something greater than ever before, are beloved by the people, are relentlessly lied about in media, and ultimately share the same enemy of international bankers.
Trump and this moment in history shares a LOT of similarities with multiple points in the past. Which should only go to show what an important point in time we’re living in.