Who is Trump's best historic/current parallel?
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« on: February 25, 2016, 06:49:48 PM »
George Wallace? The Mosleys? Silvio Berlusconi? Narendra Modi? I've seen a lot of names mentioned, but not really vetted as good comparisons in more than one dimension.
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2016, 06:51:03 PM »
FDR is probably the best comparison.
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2016, 06:52:35 PM »
Hillary is closer to Indira Gandhi than anyone on this list is to Trump.
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2016, 06:54:06 PM »
William Jennings Bryan.
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2016, 07:04:32 PM »

Not a bad one. But Bryan was an honest man.

Berlusconi seems pretty close. Or Chavez, I guess.
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2016, 07:06:25 PM »
Trump's got a bit of several folks in him:

He's got Ross Perot in him in that he's an anti-Free Trader billionaire opposed to neocon war policies.

He's got some George Wallace in him, in that he is anti-elitist, almost to the point of demogoguery.  It's not a great match, however, because Wallace was less acceptable as a potential Democratic nominee than Trump is as a potential GOP nominee.

He's got some Ronald Reagan in him, in that he recognizes the power in, and need for, a campaign that reaffirms the goodness of Middle America and American Greatness.

But, mostly, Trump's like Richard Nixon, who recognized that the GOP went off the rails with ideologues and forgot the Middle Americans that would give the GOP landslides.  The "Silent Majority" was an incredibly powerful concept that enabled Nixon to achieve so much.  
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2016, 07:17:24 PM »

A high energy, extremely wealthy New Yorker with no particular ideological convictions other than Making America Great Again? Yep.
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2016, 07:19:29 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2016, 08:40:59 PM »
Andrew Jackson
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2016, 08:49:20 PM »
Abraham Lincoln
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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2016, 08:51:04 PM »
Goldwater.

Not because of policies, character, or coalition.

Rather,  his inevitable crushing loss, will point out how doomed is that electoral strategy (in Trumps case the inane belief the GOP can still win by driving the white blue collar vote). And thus, the forerunner of a  new Tricky Dick who will push for, well, the inverse of the southern strategy.
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« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2016, 09:02:02 PM »
Dwight Eisenhower or FDR. Trump is almost exactly like these two.
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« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2016, 09:06:04 PM »
William Jennings Bryan, for sure. Clinton is like McKinley here.
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« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2016, 09:20:44 PM »
Hitler.
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« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2016, 09:28:18 PM »
How bout Henry Ford?
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« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2016, 10:26:10 PM »
Andrew Jackson
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« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2016, 11:18:41 PM »
I'm sticking with Junichiro Koizumi, Juan Peron, Silvio Berlusconi etc.
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« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2016, 11:28:50 PM »
Mussolini.



Mussolini's family had nothing like Trump's wealth, so their trajectories through life are very different, but personality and politics-wise (allowing for a different time and place), Mussolini seems a good fit. There's some Sulla there too - the connections with the patricians and the struggles of late Republican Rome are clear, but Trump would be an awful general. So maybe a lot of Crassus, too.
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« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2016, 11:29:38 PM »
Quote from: Oakvale on February 25, 2016, 07:17:24 PM

A high energy, extremely wealthy New Yorker with no particular ideological convictions other than Making America Great Again? Yep.

FDR had spent his entire career in public service and politics. He belonged to a completely different class of NY aristocracy. There is really nothing in common.
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« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2016, 11:36:07 PM »
Quote from: ag on February 25, 2016, 11:29:38 PM
Quote from: Oakvale on February 25, 2016, 07:17:24 PM

A high energy, extremely wealthy New Yorker with no particular ideological convictions other than Making America Great Again? Yep.

FDR had spent his entire career in public service and politics. He belonged to a completely different class of NY aristocracy. There is really nothing in common.

Except for policy and being demonized as a right-winger by their opponent in their first race and likely a single controversial policy that is forgotten because of all the good they bring that outweighs it. Extreme popularity across the Mid-Atlantic and Deep South.
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« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2016, 11:37:59 PM »
Any fascist dictator throughout history.
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« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2016, 11:38:22 PM »
Saddam Hussein.
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« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2016, 11:53:09 PM »
William Jennings Bryan: In the way he's taking on the party establishment via populism
George Wallace: Nativist rhetoric and appeal to the frustrated white working class
Pat Buchanan: Same as above
Reagan: In his ability to simplify things and shrug off attacks
Ross Perot: Both billionaires who attacked the Washington establishment
Wendell Willkie: In his hometown, unclear partisan affiliation, and previous experience holding elective office (i.e. none)

I think if you mix Perot and Buchanan, you get something pretty close to Trump.
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« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2016, 01:05:54 AM »
A mix of Nixon, Jackson and Perot.
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« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2016, 01:22:53 AM »
FDR's leadership ability combined with Lincoln's sense of humor, Reagan's charisma, and young Nixon's good looks.
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