(December 31, 2016 at 6:50 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: 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.
I like to think of Bush as an analogue of John the Baptist, pointing the way to the GOP's 'savior' Trump.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to grab my nail gun and some nails. A lot of fucking nails!