Trump's irl saga is one of the most amazing things to watch in my lifetime. It's a bit unreal and I won't get into what I really think is going on, but damn it's amazing.
Trump is a Great Man of history. Great men are hero/leader archetypes. This is something we haven't seen in the West since... WW2? The system has been designed to stop men like him from rising. The powers that brought us Clown World do not want you to have leaders or heroes. They want your "leaders" to be their hired servants.
Great men are great because they are
consequential men, they make things happen through their uncommon abilities or sheer force of will. That doesn't mean they are necessarily
good men or that you'll like them or that they can't lose (Hitler, Stalin, Lenin and FDR were Great, evil Men) or that everything they do is great. The Great Man theory of history isn't an endorsement, but a recognition of the most influential historical figures - without them, history would have unfolded very different.
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were great men. But the figure Trump most resembles imo is Napoleon Bonaparte. For this reason: Napoleon was simultaneously one of the most loved and hated men of his century. He was world famous in an era when celebrity was hard to attain, and for much of his lifetime the world was in an uproar about what Napoleon was doing or might do next.
— 9th March, the Anthropophagus has quitted his den
— 10th, the Corsican Ogre has landed at Cape Juan
— 11th, the Tiger has arrived at Gap
— 12th, the Monster slept at Grenoble
— 13th, the Tyrant has passed through Lyons
— 14th, the Usurper is directing his steps towards Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians have risen en masse and surrounded him on all sides
— 18th, Bonaparte is only sixty leagues from the capital; he has been fortunate enough to escape the hands of his pursuers
— 19th, Bonaparte is advancing with rapid steps, but he will never enter Paris
— 20th, Napoleon will, tomorrow, be under our ramparts
— 21st, the Emperor is at Fontainbleau
— 22nd, His Imperial and Royal Majesty, yesterday evening, arrived at the Tuileries, amidst the joyful acclamations of his devoted and faithful subjects
