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As liberal critics of the Trump presidency have scrambled for traction since January, one historical analogy seems ubiquitous: “If you want a model for what’s happening to America,” economist Paul Krugman wrote in April, “think of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.” From the New York Times to the Guardian to a slew of Substacks, commentators have presented Donald Trump as the U.S. incarnation of the Great Helmsman.
Like Mao Zedong, these pundits say, Trump is mobilizing an insurrectionary base to destroy bureaucratic and cultural elites, has created a cult of personality in which the leader’s will overrides all else, and is brutally intolerant of his ideological enemies.
What are we a bunch of Asians?!
There are so many parallels from Trump to hitler or mussolini, and these liberal idiots cant stop comparing him to Stalin or Mao. Their understanding of historical figures is truly a simplistic smooth brained understanding. good guy-bad guy
Then genocidal Americans historical figures: its complicated
In my country we have public places named after “great statesman who won against nazis; it was different times” Winston Churchill, but try to propose naming something after Stalin.
Not that we would, of course. He'd turn in his grave at modern communists doing that. He hated cult of personality nonsense directed at himself just as much as Lenin did. He didn't want the people to erect statues of him and name stuff after him.
But yeah, the double standard is ridiculous.
That’s the weird thing, during his first term there were a lot of comparisons to Andrew Jackson floating around. This time around, not so much. I think this signals that libs are doubling down on glazing historical American figures, no matter how bloodthirsty they were.