The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his ‘ideas’ almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly, there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill."
Allow me to disabuse you of the assumption that this is an accurate description of America's current president. I mean, it couldn't be, right?
Instead, it is a quote from Sinclair Lewis's book "It Can't Happen Here", published as long ago as 1935, just two years after Hitler had risen to power and people in Germany had also thought, "It can't happen here!"
You may want to read the book or watch this film adaptation:
"He was an actor of genius. There was no more overwhelming actor on the stage, in the motion pictures, nor even in the pulpit. He would whirl arms, bang tables, glare from mad eyes, vomit Biblical wrath from a gaping mouth; but he would also coo like a nursing mother, beseech like an aching lover, and in between tricks would coldly and almost contemptuously jab his crowds with figures and facts—figures and facts that were inescapable even when, as often happened, they were entirely incorrect."
