Posted on 12/28/2017 12:28:42 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Comparing the late Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Donald Trump is guaranteed to elicit scorn from intellectuals, for one was a prolific man of letters, while the other speaks in the vocabulary of the common man. One was a journalist and scholar, while the other is a builder, deal-maker, and master persuader (as Scott Adams argues). And one smoked and drank prolifically, while the other abstains from both.
But beneath the veneer of literary styles, there are obvious historical similarities between Winston Churchill's becoming prime minister and Donald Trump's shocking election to the American presidency. It is hard to watch the film Darkest Hour, about those terrible days in May 1940 when Churchill became prime minister. At that moment in time, it seemed that the U.K. would have to surrender to Hitler. Three hundred thousand British troops were trapped on the beach at Dunkirk without any apparent means of rescue. Hitler was on the march and had taken Norway and Belgium; France had capitulated to the Germans without a fight.
Chamberlain resigned, and Churchill accepted King George VI's appointment to the position of prime minister, but the king, and both parties of Parliament, loathed Churchill. They, both sides, also knew he was the only man to lead at that moment in time. Neville Chamberlain's unfortunate good-will gesture at Munich had been a disaster. Only Churchill realized and had incessantly warned about the evil that was Hitler's regime. FDR, hoping to avoid U.S. intervention in the war, was not helpful or forthcoming with military aid just yet. Roosevelt eventually rose to the occasion but had not fully discerned the evil that Hitler represented to the world. Churchill did. FDR was not the wartime leader Churchill was.
To the horror of our 2016 establishment, Donald Trump was elected.
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A good read.
The left, because they’re biased worldview, believes that it’s unlikly for President Truml to be Churchilan but, truth be told, Truml has been acting Churchillian since the day that he announced his candidacy for the President of the United States.
That's only the first half of a very important political lesson...
Clement Atlee and the Labour Party defeated Churchill in a landslide election in July 1945, while the British were still fighting the Japanese.
“for one was a prolific man of letters”
Who pursued military adventures as a young man, including participation in the last, full-bore cavalry charge of the British Empire.
Today’s intellectuals aren’t a pimple on Churchill’s horse’s butt.
Amen.
Some folks never manage to see the forest for the trees.
He is the man for the crises.
That isn’t the point being discussed, it is the fact that both men stepped into lead at crucial moments in their nations history.
Exactly!
Agreed!
Nobody hated Churchill more than the left for Churchill was a British conservative and adoft’s national socalist party was seeing as a liberal socalists reformers they were.
Chamberlain’s appeasements we’re simply the product of a RINO believing the lefts own propaganda about themselves being somehow sheep even as their entire platform is about using force to redistribute your meat ultimately to themselves. Also know as a wolf
Churchill was hated because Chruchhill was not a lefty or lefty simpliser, but of course chirchhill was also right because their propaganda about their ideoligy was always just that.
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