Like everyone whose name stands for havoc (Trumpism), there's a prototype. Before Hitler, there was Mussolini, and before Trump, another Italian -- Silvio Berlusconi.
Something about the passage from real estate into media. While Berlusconi made his fortune as a developer, Trump muscled his siblings out of their father's inheritance and lost more in bad developments than he would have made had he banked that inheritance and collected the interest.
Like Berlusconi, Trump moved into media. This time he succeeded. Not as a cable television tycoon, like Berlusconi, but as talent, a performer who played his cartoon self. While Trump was still concluding episodes with "You're fired!", Berlusconi was forming a political party -- Forza Italia, or Go, Italy!
Prime Minister Berlusconi's time in office is a well-documented clown show that had him charged and convicted of fraud and corruption. Trump will suffer a similar fate. But like Berlusconi, his convictions will be overturned. The question is, will there be such a thing as Politics by then? Or a Law that upholds basic human rights and freedoms? If not, those who "Let Trump Be Trump" will have accomplished their mission. Just like U.S. President Roosevelt and General Eisenhower accomplished their mission when they Let the Mafia Be the Mafia during World War II, and the British during the Great War before them, when they Let Lawrence Be Lawrence.
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