In October of 1931, the president of the German Republic had a closed-door meeting with a man who just eight years earlier tried to overthrow the country from a beer hall.
Paul von Hindenburg was an old-country elite leader. Former Field Marshall from World War I, von Hindenburg was respected, seasoned, and one of those people in Europe who you knew would end up in some kind of position of authority and power.
The man he was meeting, however, was a nothing of the sort. He was short, skinny, boisterous, and he sported a laughable square moustache just like a certain comedian of the era. He wasn’t even German. He was Austrian. A failed painter who couldn’t even make a living selling postcards. Like von Hindenburg, he too served in World War I, but he was a lowly corporal who relayed messages and ended up getting wounded and spent the rest of the war in a hospital. In 1923, he led an insurrection from a beer hall that failed miserably. He was convicted for treason and sent to prison. The only reason why he was released early instead of being sent there for life was because the judges took pity on this failure of a man.
The German Republic leader thought very lowly of the short little clown. In fact, it is reported that von Hindenburg believed the only post the skinny clown could possibly attain was Postmaster, so that, von Hindenburg allegedly said “every time he licks a stamp he’ll have to lick my backside”.
The skinny mockery of a man, on the other hand, believed the meeting went exceptionally well and that he would soon be on his way to ruling Germany.
In just one year, the man who supposedly would only be good to lick stamps would become the leader of Germany.
You can guess who that short, skinny, little failure of a man was. He was Adolf Hitler. And while his meteoric rise from that meeting with von Hindenburg had more to do with behind-the-scene political manipulations than with public approval of his party, it needs to be noted that nobody, save for Hitler himself, believed that he would become leader of anything other than a post office. They all dismissed him as a failure and a clown. They would live at least long enough to regret that.
I bring this up because we are seeing similar parallels to America’s own clown, the now-former President of the United States Narcissist Donald John Trump. An egomaniacal megalomaniacal failure whose gross ineptitude contributed to more than half-a-million Americans dead due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Like Hitler, Narcissist Trump tried to overthrow the government in January of 2021. Like Hitler, the narcissist failed. Unlike Hitler, though, the narcissist has yet to face criminal charges.
As of this article, the narcissist now sits in his cushy Mar a Lago resort in Florida, acting like an exiled despot still wielding power through his legions of cronies and enablers. His delusional cult followers continue to claim that his re-election was “stolen” (it wasn’t, he lost) and that somehow he would be “restored” to power (there is no mechanism at all that allows it) on a date that continually gets pushed back like the Great Disappointment of 1844.
It is believed that he will run for the White House again in 2024. Even if he doesn’t, he wields a political base strong enough to dictate who would be “allowed” to run on his behalf. But a narcissist ego like that doesn’t like to lead “by proxy”. He needs to be the face and the name of whatever he runs.
I say this because I continually hear from people on progressive broadcasts that Narcissist Trump would never be president again. Not after his loss in 2020, which he still refuses to accept. Not after more people voted than at any time in American history and seven million more voted for now-President Joe Biden than they did for the orange manchild. They believe the narcissist to be ineffectual; stripped of his global media platforms; not even able to maintain a simple blog; and resorting to being an event-crasher just so he could ramble on about how great he pretended to be and how unfairly he was supposedly treated.
No, the progressives say, Narcissist Trump will never, ever, be President of the United States ever again. Won’t happen. Ever.
Don’t buy it.
Do not ever accept the thought that this orange-skinned narcissistic psychopath would somehow be blocked from the White House just because he lost the 2020 Election. An election loss that he still refuses to acknowledge. An election that he tried to overturn through criminal threats and a failed insurrection.
Don’t forget that his minions in the various state legislatures have been busy sabotaging voting rules and gerrymandering districts to ensure Trump/Q Party supremacy after a badly-rigged 2020 census. Don’t forget that his cult followers are out there “auditing” the 2020 results and coming up with ways to “disqualify” votes after-the-fact in ways that make the “Florida Chad” issue in 2000 look like rocket science. “Dimpled Chad”? “Hanging Chad”? Now we have ballots being tested for bamboo. They are setting the stage not only to have Trump/Q party supremacy now and forever, but for their orange messiah to return to the White House as their President-for-Life.
Hell, there is nothing at all in the United States Constitution that says that a convicted criminal can somehow be prevented from being President of the United States! So even if he is charged, arrested, and convicted, Narcissist Trump could theoretically still be elected and sworn in again as President!
Let’s get brutally honest here... as long as Narcissist Donald Trump is still breathing free air, as long as he is still slumming in luxury at Mar a Lago instead of an 8x12 in Club Fed, as long as he is not being held to account for his criminal activities both before and during his regime, and as long as he continues to wield power over his cult followers and his toadies and his enablers, and, indeed a whole dominant political party, he will continue to serve as a threat to everything America stands for. His return to the White House is not something we should readily dismiss.
This is not something that this commentator would like to dwell on. Like many of you, I really wanted him to just go away as with his Twitter and Facebook accounts. He’s gone, Joe Biden is in the White House, that’s it. Game over. Unfortunately, that’s not him. His narcissistic megalomaniacal ego will not allow him to just go away. His cult followers will not allow it, and the party that he co-opted back in 2016 lack the courage to do anything different. Consequentially those of us who oppose him and his cult cannot delude ourselves into thinking that he will do that.
Germany underestimated their skinny buffoon who tried to overthrow the government almost a century ago, and the whole world paid the price for that. We, the great unwashed in America, thought that our orange buffoon would never be president even back in 2016. And now, even after what we know, many of us are making the same mistake again in thinking he would never again infest the White House. History tells us to not make this mistake again. For once in our miserable collective existence as a species, let’s not allow history to repeat itself.
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