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Trump will become the symbolic image of this period of American history
But the most prominent part of this period of political history is the fact that America allowed this idiot into office in the first place.
The dumb part is not that Trump is who he is ... the dumb part is that a whole mass of people, professionals, academics, politicians and leaders either helped, supported or stood by to let this dumb leader into the highest office and keep him there ... and to say the least, the American people who all debated among themselves endlessly to the point of allowing this dumb leader to their highest office.
Trump is dumb sure .... but the dumbest part of this whole thing is that an entire country paved the way for this one dumb leader to represent them all.
the dumb of the many outweighs the dumb of the few (or the one)
I agree with all of this, but when people talk about Nazis, they mostly talk about Hitler. Only historical scholars talk about how the Nazi party was the largest democratically elected political party in the German parliament during the Weimar Republic. Only deep study starts to discuss the capitalist influence of steel and coal magnates and companies like Deutsche Bank pressuring President Hindenburg to instill Hitler as chancellor.
Make no mistake, we won't learn from this. The overwhelming narrative will be "somehow, the emperor returned." I pray we make substantive changes to our government to prevent the overreach that the office of president is currently exhibiting. It's insane that everyone is watching multiple blatantly illegal things occur daily, but the Supreme Court has ruled that it is impossible for the president to be on the wrong side of the law. I can see that changing if we ever regain control of the executive branch, but I think the general public will eventually come to think of this era as Trump being a Hitler like figure who shoulders almost the entirety of the blame for what has happened and what is yet to come.
Yup.
Our legacy in the history books is tied to Trump and the future is going to view us as a generation of bumbling fools. Garbage people. That's our historic legacy.
A very embarrassing time to be an American.