Posted on 07/21/2015 11:09:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's the morning of Friday, January 20, 2017, and it's Inauguration Day. Donald John Trump Sr. has his hand on a Bible, and America looks on, agape, as he swears to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
How we got to this point isn't important. The question now is, what the [expletive] is about to happen?
To come up with even the vaguest answer, we have to look back at history. Because as British TV science guy James Burke once said, "Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look." If that sounds a little ominous, that's because we're talking about the presidential administration of the "You're fired" guy from TV.
University of Virginia historian Brian Balogh was game to talk to us about whether a Trump presidency is really the doomsday scenario it sounds like. Why should you listen to Balogh? Well, for one thing he's an expert in 20th-century American politics, and hosts a pretty popular radio show about history called Backstory With the American History Guys. And when I emailed him to set up an interview, he made a prediction about Trump that has already come true.
In an email on Friday, Balogh wrote that while the Donald's tendency to shoot his mouth off seemed to be working for him so far, "Trump would soon use it on a person or organization that the broad majority of the public admires, respects, [or] pities, and it would work against Trump."
The very next day, Trump went off the rails, disparaging Senator John McCain's war record during a speech at a Republican candidates forum in Iowa. "He's a war hero 'cause he was captured," Trump said of the former POW....
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The Reggie Love advise line.
Would be a remarkable thing...
Not sure what would happen after but would be exciting and probably better for America than what we have experienced the last 20 years or so...
whatever it is, it will be better than another Bush or Clinton presidency.
Well, that’s progress. Now they’re at least thinking (fearing) that it could be possible. Before they believed it was “metaphysical certitude” that it could never possibly happen.
It would be spectacularly wonderful to see him stroll through the various agencies of the US Govt. pointing to people left and right, yelling, “You’re fired!”
LOL. Go, Trump, GO!!
In some ways it would be like having that Canadian Rob Ford, who was Mayor of Toronto.
In the month or so Trump has been running we know everything about him. All the way to his child hood. We know his education, his upbringing, his personality, his history, his family. Everything.
7 years of this commie Obama and we still know nothing. We only get the occasional glimpse in to his psyche when someone like Major Garrett piss him off. We know he’s a petulant child and that’s about it. We know nothing else.
Oh my could I offer some suggestions - ha! Oh yes, that would be so glorious! So many to fire and so little time - only 4 or maybe 8 years!
I’d rather see Rob Ford in the White House than Barry & Michelle, John Ellis & Columba or Hillary & Bill. But that’s just me.
take your post 10, and refine it.
captured, OK?” (McCain, as you may remember, was held captive in Vietnam for five years, refusing early release even after repeated torture and beatings.)
I think the commander of the prisoners made the decision about who got released and when, not john. and i tank him for his service
Three weeks and people are already writing about what it will be like. LOL
We who? I was never on the Ah-nold bandwagon in any way and bet that holds true for 98% of the people here.
I think the repub winner will be assassinated and the chaos around the world created by O will just help the e college elect o again.
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