I think Trump is closer to that description than we think. The President is plenty philosophical about this country and he has brooded over it for years. I don't think he is melancholy because he is very able to keep his promises and make things better.
“””””I think Trump is closer to that description than we think. The President is plenty philosophical about this country and he has brooded over it for years. “””””””””””
I have watched very old youtubes of Trump. He talks about some of the same things then. Other countries roll us, nobody will stand up to them etc.
He finally has a chance to fix things that he has been talking about for years.
I agree with you on this. Trump, because of his twitchy Twitter finger and non-academic background, can come across as just another crazy New Yorker. But he’s very smart and I actually do think he has a basic idea of what the US is and how things should be here and, like Lincoln, he wants it to be that way. If he’s keeping a stiff upper lip and keeping on tweeting, that may be because of his wife, who is (hopefully) encouraging him.
Lincoln, also heavily ridiculed because he wasn’t in with the cool kids, was very similar.