Your...apparently...trying to draw parallels between President Trump and people like Rasputin...which is absurd on its face. Further, your use of the term "devotees" is used to demean those who support the President and the Make America great movement by delivering a connotation of blind obeisance to an individual. In doing both of these things, you are demonstrating your utter lack of the MAGA movement and of history generally. The president's supporters support him because he fights for conservatism...and makes no apologies for just how great this nation is. Much as men followed Jefferson, Washington and Franklin as they fought to defeat an establishment and restore genuine freedom to a misrepresented and demeaned people...President Trump is a continuation of that great striving for freedom. He is the antithesis of a Rasputin and molded of the same clay as those great early Revolutionaries who made our Republic a model for the world. Like the Founding Fathers, he is flawed and often too extreme in his passions...and yet, like them, he fights. That is why WE support him...that is why 90% of conservatives/Republicans supported his presidency...and that is why he is without doubt the leader we need in our present crisis. You have a personalized hatred of the man...we get it. Sadly, that hatred obliterates your ability to reason and make sound arguments. Perhaps a weekend at a spa or some meditation would be helpful.
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Fair enough, as it's an opinion Forum, all are entitled; yet a few rejoinders.
* Trump conjures up the Charlatan which reminded me of Rasputin. Nothing more.
* Nothing negative about being a devotee, as long as one's principles are virtuous.
* In essence, MAGA is driven by politics, the very last ism plain people need, given
the turmoil raging across our nation; in my judgement.
* As for Trump's "conservatism" doubt he can even spell the word.
* As for our Founders, subconsciously they understood that our Heritage/Legacy
was birthed by Great Britain; despite our fight for independence; a point of history
Russell Kirk made often.
* My rejection of Trump is not driven by hatred, rather it's contempt for the plain
and simple reason that at his core Trump is little more that another political
hustler, as are all politicians.
History accurately labels Greece and Rome as Birth Fathers of Western Civilization.
While they accepted different forms of governance during their 1,200 years of Rule,
both the Greek Assembly and the Roman Senate represented the essence of their governance. As such attitudes, behaviors, impulses and sentiments were enforced
and those ignoring these rules were shown the door.
The embarrassments we call leaders wouldn't even get in the door of the Athenian
Assembly or Roman Senate!