And ditto for Franco. (and please, no lame Chevy Chase jokes).
I’m looking for similarities the left is going to try to paint Trump with. Hitler won’t work. They will settle for Pinochet without the deaths but that won’t stop them. Something tells me in an ideal world you wouldn’t need a Pinochet but without them the whole world would go to hell in a hand basket. Is Trump Caesar? Could be. Pinochet is another example of the times producing such leaders.
A Democrat acquaintance of mine recently visited Spain. He was shocked to find good respectable people defending Franco. Americans have trouble understanding what the war was really about. The older ones picture “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and the younger ones just know lame Chevy Chase jokes. And the really young ones don’t even know that.
If you’ve read Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” its not such a mystery. But history is taught, when its taught at all, in the most cartoonish way.