RE: Prophecies about Trump becoming president
December 31, 2016 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2016 at 6:53 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 31, 2016 at 6:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken The Baltimore Sun, 1920.
Sadly for Mencken this prophecy was realized on 1-20-2001 when Bush the Dumber was sworn in. He only gets credit for one correct prophecy even though Drumpf is several steps below Dubya on the intelligence scale.
Of course, 1 correct prophecy puts him one up on 'jesus.'
No. Mencken deserves the credit. Bush might have been a warning, and might even have been as big a moron as trump. But magnitude is not all that matters. For trump is also the right kind of moron that truly reflect the particular blend of foundational depravity and towering idiocy of the innermost "plain folk". Bush was just a sketch, trump is the real thing.
